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Overview
KTPs provide academics with a unique opportunity to engage in practical, real-world challenges faced by businesses. Through these collaborations, academics gain valuable insights into industry practices, market trends, and specific challenges, enriching your research with practical applications and enhancing the relevance and impact of your work.
Two or more academics form part of the team that will deliver the KTP. In total the academic team spends ½ day per week on supervising the project; this time allocation is costed and paid into your department.
How can a KTP benefit you and your research?
You will receive expert support from Lancaster University's KTP service team and a dedicated advisor from Innovate UK Business Connect.
Insights
Gain insight into business operations and develop teaching materials with real-world relevance.
Translate innovative research
Translate innovative research into impactful products or services, delivering tangible economic and societal benefits.
Applied research
Demonstrate real-world impact by applying research in practical settings.
Build strategic relationships
Build strategic business relationships, opening doors to future research and revenue opportunities.
Student opportunities
Create opportunities for student engagement, including student projects (on average, more than two student projects are initiated by each KTP).
Impact
Produce publishable outcomes in journal papers and conferences, and generate evidence for REF and KEF impact case studies.
KTP and the Research Excellence Framework (REF)
KTP activities and outcomes can be included in the REF as part of:
- Research outputs
- Case studies highlighting impact outside academia
- Examples of our environment and culture that supports research engagement
- Externally funded research awards and counted as part of research income
Academic Experience
Professor John Quinton, Lancaster Environment Centre
Academic Experience
“The KTP has allowed time out from the academic environment and provided real-life examples that reinforce that knowledge. The benefits gained to undergraduate project students with access to industrial personnel and industry challenges has been rewarding for many and an eye opener for others. The KTP has enabled the administration and management of these projects to become far more streamlined and a joy to undertake.”
Dr Stephen Quayle, School of Engineering, Lancaster University