David Kynaston
Chair of the Electronics KTN
SME's: our leading enterprises?
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Jamie Urquhart
Pond Ventures
Risk and Innovation
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David Kynaston speaking about the Electronics KTN at National Electronics Week
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Identify grant or funding support for your organisation
FundMap
A fully searchable database of grants
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FundMap is a database of grants and funding schemes available to the UK’s electronics sector. Access is open to all companies.
Many agencies, including the European Commission, the UK Government and local authorities offer business support to help companies grow and develop. However, identifying which funding scheme best fits your company needs can be time-consuming and confusing. Support services such as Business Link can help you expidite the process - but they may only have local knowledge.
To help companies navigate their way through the myriad of schemes available, the Electronics KTN has developed an online tool to help companies efficiently identify grants, loans, capital or access to university resource.
FundMap aims to:
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Help you efficiently identify grants, loans, capital or access to university resource
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Find the funding scheme that fits your business needs, whatever the stage of company or product development
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Allow you to stay abreast of funding developments and learn about new schemes as they become available
Use FundMap to:
- Search for grants, funding schemes and business support
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Identify grants that match your specific requirements
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Expand or refine your list by filtering on multiple selection criteria
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Look at grants on a regional basis – by region, UK or Europe
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View a detailed listing for each funding scheme
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See an overview of the scheme and the eligibility criteria
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Find contact details for the sponsors of the scheme
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Check the application method and key dates
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Monitor funding calls and competitions
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See a complete list of funding calls
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See details and key dates for open calls
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Use the RSS feed to get automatic updates of new schemes
Access to FundMap is completely free.
Bookmark www.FundMap.co.uk for future reference.
Artemisia Partner Search
Looking for associates to discuss starting a new project? Perhaps you already have a clear project idea but still need partners? Or you want to join an existing consortium? This is a good place to search for and establish contact with people from other companies and institutes who are interested in participating in an ARTEMIS project.
The ARTEMISIA Partner Search is a free on-line service that is open to all. Use it to facilitate the formation of consortia or the definition of project proposals.
You can use it to freely search for partners or project ideas - focusing on specific technologies, domains, or key applications - or you can refine your search with other keywords.
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Artemisia Partner Search
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International Brokerage at electronica - November 11th - 14th, Munich
Get the most out of electronica '08 by taking advantage of this free brokerage service available to visitors and exhibtors to electronica '08 this year.
Request a meeting with any of the companies listed at electronica brokerage
If you would like to participate and add your Company, go to electronica_profile to add your company profile.
View participating companies at: electronica brokerage
Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition
Healthcare associated infections
The Technology Strategy Board and the Department of Health’s NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme are pleased to announce that the pilot SBRI competition in Healthcare Associated Infections is now open.
Do you have a technology in development that could make a difference to the challenges outlined below? If so, we would like to hear from you.
The new SBRI is a phased procurement programme, intended to deliver demonstrated leading-edge technologies and products to meet future needs of Government and its agencies ahead of commercial procurement, and also to support technology developments through the critical stages of demonstration and trial.
SBRI competitions are open to all suppliers based in the EU; we are particularly keen to receive bids from early-stage, high-technology businesses. Developments are 100% funded and focused on specific identified needs, increasing the chance of exploitation.
Suppliers for each project will be selected by an open competition process and retain the intellectual property generated from the project, with certain rights of use retained by the contracting Department. This is an excellent opportunity to establish an early customer for a new technology and to fund its development.
The specific topics for this Healthcare Associated Infections competition are:
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Hand Hygiene. We are looking for technologies for improving hand hygiene effectiveness, compliance or both, in hospital wards.
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Pathogen detection in the hospital environment. We are looking for a test for product residue that gives rapid results to facilitate immediate corrective action, yet is simple enough to be performed on the ward without the need for recourse to a laboratory.
This competition is one of a range of programmes to tackle Healthcare Associated Infections. The most appropriate one for your business depends on what stage the technology has reached, how focused it is on our specific requirements, and what is required to bring it to commercialisation for use in the NHS. SBRI seeks technologies that are a significant step beyond currently available products, yet can be commercialised within a few years.
Further SBRI competitions will be announced via the Technology Strategy Board website in the coming months. Following early evaluation of the pilots in the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Health, we anticipate full roll-out of the reformed model to other Departments in April 2009.
General enquiries about the SBRI programme can be directed to email sbri@tsb.gov.uk
Enter the EKTN competition to win exclusive places in Lotus Engineering Visit
Find out about the latest developments in electric and hybrid vehicle technology! Ten Cambridge Network members have the chance to go behind the scenes at Lotus Engineering for an exclusive visit next month (13th November)
Cambridge Network, on behalf of the Electronics Knowledge Transfer Network is arranging a competition to allocate places on a behind the scenes visit to Lotus Engineering in Hethel, Norfolk, where tomorrow's vehicles are being designed and (coming soon) manufactured.
Here's your chance to see the Tesla Roadster - pictured here - developed by Tesla Motors with design help from Lotus Cars. It's a fully electric sports car, the first car produced by Tesla.
The car can travel 244 mi (393 km) on a single charge of its lithium-ion battery pack and accelerate from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 3.9 seconds.
Read more about it on Wikipedia
The competition is open to all members of the EKTN (don't worry, if you're not already a member, its free to join! You can join when you enter the competition below)
To win one of the ten available places, you will need to state in 100 words how your organisation is best placed to contribute to the upcoming revolution in electric and hybrid vehicles in the UK.The winning entries will be selected by panel of judges and the winning members will be notified
For runners up, the eKTN will be organising a follow-up lecture in Cambridge which will feature the public domain areas of Lotus' work.
Find out more about this event and Join the EKTN and enter the competition