Catapult centres in the UK

David Golding Head of European and Global Engagement

Innovate UK

• UK’s innovation agency - a national public body set up by government to stimulate business innovation

• Sponsored by the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

• 300 people mostly from business

• Responsible for investing over €600m per year in innovation

A Simpler Offer to Business

FUND CONNECT &

Investment to undertake high- impact and risky projects

To expertise, funding, partners and special facilities

The Innovate UK Family

Seeking to help more companies grow and scale

- Connections - To expertise / research

- To partners

- To customers

Working

- Locally

- Nationally

- Globally

Catapults - background

Background

• Over the last 20 years –

• most of the UK public sector research establishments either privatised or closed

• large corporates closed or downsized their own R&D facilities moving to an open innovation model

• Taylor Review in 2002 on nanotechnology saw the need to establish Micro and Nanotechnology Centres to support industry take-up with plan to establish two centres initially

• Twenty-four MNT centres established between 2003 and 2007 generally built on existing University or business expertise, with the intention of most becoming, in time, self financing

• Regional Development Agencies in England and Wales abolished in 2009-10 having made investments in some regional centres

Catapults - background

Background

• Innovate UK (Technology Strategy Board) in 2009 looked at the UK innovation system and identified the need for centres to address gaps

• Work led to the Hauser Review on ‘The Current and Future Role of Technology and Innovation Centres in the UK’ – published March 2010

• Hauser Review looked at a number of international examples – • Carnot Institutes - France

• Fraunhofer Institutes – Germany

• TNO – Netherlands

• GTS network – Denmark

• Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) – Finland

• Inter-University Micro Electronics Centre (IMEC) – Belgium

• Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) - Taiwan

• Electronics and Communications Research Institute (ETRI) - South Korea

• The National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) – Japan

Catapults - background

Hauser review of Technology and Innovation Centres - 2010

14 recommendations

• UK Government should establish, and provide sustained funding for a network of elite business-focused national TICs in areas where the UK has the potential to gain substantial economic benefit

• Publish a national strategy for the TICs

• Location needs to consider the national nature of the TICs, research excellence and business strength

• Core funding for each of the TICs must be properly costed

• Funding must be of the order £5-10m per annum per TIC, over on average, a 10 year period (subject to review), to deliver meaningful benefit

• Funding should incentivise the TICs to draw upon the outputs of the research base and other TICs

• TICs need to attracting highly networked and trusted managers and staff with relevant business and technical skills

Catapults - background

Hauser review of Technology and Innovation Centres - 2010

14 recommendations (continued)

• Link to Government innovative procurement to help commercialise the outputs

• Each TIC should be overseen by a business led steering group

• A Management Board should be created to oversee the network of national TICs

• The Government should create a unique brand recognising a significant UK contribution to science such as the work of James Clerk Maxwell

• A web-based database of TICs and related institutions offering services to business should be created

• The Government should develop an offer to support UK businesses access world leading expertise in TICs overseas, particularly in the EU

• Promote UK centres to businesses and similar centres internationally, and help the Centres develop international links and attract inward investment and funding

Catapults

• Part of a world-leading network of technology and innovation centres

• Bridge the gap between businesses, academia, research and government

• A long-term investment to transform the UK’s ability to create new products and services

• Open up global opportunities for the UK and generate sustained economic growth for the future

• Established and overseen by the Innovate UK

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Catapults

>£1.6bn Private & public sector investment

What is a Catapult centre?

• Business-focused technology and innovation centre that makes world-leading technical capability available to businesses to solve their technical and business challenges

• Provides:

• Access to world-leading technology & expertise

• Reach into the knowledge base for world-class science

• Capability to undertake collaborative R&D projects with business

• Capability to undertake contract research for business

• Create a critical mass of activity

• Skills development at all levels

Technology Readiness Levels

Catapults

Helping business to identify, adopt and exploit innovative technologies Core Projects

Key challenges and barriers

A unique technical capability

Industry & research advisory groups

Demonstration projects

Disseminate to industry CR&D

Innovation in collaborations

Bring together customers, SMEs & blue-chip companies

Technical & management resource

Partners in Projects (IUK & EU)

Expertise at unlocking funding

Commercial

Access to unique facilities & expertise

Develop & demonstrate at scale

Reduce risk of implementation

Direct contracts for projects

Easy access for SMEs

Intellectual Property

• Core Funded - 100% Catapult funded

– IP owned and managed by the Catapults

– Responsibility to disseminate and make available

– Catapult free to use, license, share, dispose of, within State Aid rules

• Contract - 100% Customer funded

– Foreground rights generally remain with customer

– All IP generated is owned by the Customer

• Collaboration Activity - Funding divided between partners

– Collaborators own the IP dependent on what they put in (funding input, Know-How, equipment, ideas, etc) OR

– Assign ownership to a single collaborator, deal with any claims to the IP through subsequent licensing on a ‘need and use basis’.

– Catapult can own IP or act as ‘mediator’

High Value Manufacturing Catapult

Catalyst for the future growth and success of

UK Manufacturing

Its 7 Centres offer access to:

World class open-sourced manufacturing technology at industrial scale

The UK’s best relevant university research

2000+ specialist engineers, technicians & scientists

Opportunity to collaborate and co-innovate

Full range of manufacturing capabilities, from raw materials to product development, optimisation and automation

Exceeding performance targets

Generating approx. 40% of its income

from industry contracts

Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult

Pathfind therapies into the clinic and out and into the market

• Core projects with direct investment

Sourced largely from university sector

• Rounded phase II data package

• Investible propositions

Assist industry to progress to commercialisation

• Collaborative R&D £10m pa

• Contract research £10m pa

• Inward investors

• Technology platforms

• Gene modified Immune cell

• Somatic Cell

• Cell Plasticity

• 3D technologies

• Viral Vector technologies

• Point of care manufacture

• Seamless Freight

Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult Manufacturing Centre

• 7,700m2 world-leading GMP manufacturing

centre due to open in 2017 in Stevenage

• Highly-skilled workforce

• Cluster development

• J&J Innovation Centre

• GE Healthcare show laboratory

• Tokyo Electron

• GSK

• Cambridge University

• UCL

• ISPR Therapeutics

• Viable logistics – a gateway to Europe and

beyond experienced local

Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

• The UK’s flagship technology testing, demonstration and

research centre for offshore wind, wave and tidal energy

• Delivering prioritised research, in collaboration with

industry and academia, underpinned by deep technical

knowledge and world-class test and demonstration

facilities

• Enhancing understanding from data, enabling innovation

and reducing risk and cost

Satellite Applications Catapult

Driving economic growth through the exploitation of satellites, and linking space organisations with new markets.

• Focusing on four priority programmes, Maritime, Transport, Explore

Markets and Explore Technology.

• Strong SME engagement – providing business support and expertise to enable the translation of ideas from concept to market.

• Building enabling platforms, e.g. Planning Applications Tool - Keyne Eye, and Project Eyes on the Sea, to help combat illegal fishing.

• Providing expertise and access to ground and in-orbit test facilities. Developing, operating and exploiting small-sat technology.

• Facilities, expertise, relationships and ‘trusted convener’ to develop ideas in collaboration to encourage and support the exploitation of knowledge.

Transport Systems Catapult

• Modal integration & more effective use of combined capability

• System performance including smart infrastructure asset management

• New business models to unlock new value chains

• Intelligent Mobility modelling platform

• Imovation Centre in Milton Keynes

• Co-funded with Dept for Transport

Drive UK global leadership in intelligent mobility promoting sustained economic growth and wellbeing through integrated, efficient and sustainable transport systems

Future Cities Catapult

Urban ingenuity. Made real. Scaled globally.

Future Cities Catapult accelerates urban ideas to market, to grow the economy and make cities better.

Cutting-Edge Facilities

• Urban Innovation Centre in London a destination for business, academia, city leaders to develop city solutions.

• Cities Lab provides data analysis, modeling and visualisation capabilities to elucidate city problems.

• On-the-ground demonstrators in collaborating cities for testing new products and services in-situ.

Key Projects

• Sensing Cities uses sensor networks to measure air quality around London and make the city healthier.

• Cities Unlocked blends technology and user-centred design to help vulnerable citizens navigate cities.

• Cities Standards Institute develops standards for urban innovation to help markets flourish in the UK.

• Urban Data Programme makes city data open and accessible, unlocking data in Bristol and Manchester.

Digital Catapult

A national centre to rapidly advance the UK’s best digital ideas to market, creating new products, services, jobs and value for the UK economy.

The Digital Catapult helps UK businesses unlock new value from sharing closed data in better and more trusted ways.

How we do this:

• Building platform enablers – for new ideas

• Convening open innovation – Big meets small pilots

We focus on four challenge areas:

• Closed Organisational Data: Creating secure environments that allow the UK to safely mix their closed data and open it up to innovators

• Personal Data and Trust: Helping to overcome the challenges of creating trust in the use of Personal Data

• Creative Content: Unlocking new value in the creative industries by making the reuse of creative content easier

• The Internet of Things: Sharing and generating IoT data. Being a convening force in creating large scale IoT demonstrators.

Addresses Natural Monopoly Issues: Open access facilities, often one-of-a-kind in the UK; No single company (esp. SMEs) or supply chain could create/maintain such centres at the leading edge

Increases scale, speed and scope of commercialisation: Commercialising swiftly & effectively makes difference between being a market leader or follower; Focus activities on riskier investments

Enhance value through collaboration: Work across institutional boundaries, bringing together people with complementary skills sets

Convening and Collaborating: ‘Neutral convener’ role vital to

bring together a wide group of stakeholders

Hauser Review 2014 Findings

1. Maintain support for existing Catapults subject to performance

2. Keep balanced 1/3 funding model

3. Create a pipeline and grow network by 1 or 2 per year – 30 by 2030

4. Increase funding for Innovation – double Innovate UK budget by 2020

5. Strengthen SME outreach and engagement

6. Strengthen links with Universities – UK and worldwide

7. Develop stronger KPIs

8. Catapults focus on wider issues with time e.g. Skills, Regulations

9. Make Catapult the default brand

Hauser Review 2014 Recommendations

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david.golding@innovateuk.gov.uk