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FOCUS ON CORNWALL


SUPPORTING RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT


AND INNOVATION IN THE MARINE SECTOR Marine-i will drive innovation in businesses through collaborative working, strategic funding and access to facilities and knowledge


Led by the University of Exeter, in partnership with The Cornwall College Group, Cornwall Development Company, Cornwall Marine Network, Plymouth University and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, Marine-i is a newly launched initiative to support research, development and innovation in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.


THREE YEAR INITIATIVE


Marine-i has been established as part of the Cornwall & isles of Scilly’s European Strategic Investment Programme and is a three year initiative seeking to create economic development within the region’s businesses that have the capacity and desire to innovate, who seek funding and knowledge, or to collaborate with other businesses, colleges and universities to co-create new products.


PROGRAMME DELIVERY TEAM


Central to the delivery programme is a team with experience of working with businesses through the innovation process. The team has access to a fund that will substantially contribute to the costs of businesses involved in research, development and innovation, and access to specialist business researchers and facilities.


By applying these supporting measures Marine-i aims to reduce risk and accelerate ideas to market. Through the Marine-i Challenge Fund, businesses can benefit from up to £150,000 of financial support towards the costs of implementing their projects.


COORDINATED APPROACH


Jim Grant Head of Business Development, Cornwall at the University of Exeter


MARINE-I CHALLENGE FUND


Plymouth University’s Marine Institute is delivering a key role in the ERDF-funded Marine-i Challenge Fund


The Fund is expected to provide developers in the south-west with access to the deep water testing facilities at Plymouth University’s COAST laboratory, as well as research skills, innovation and knowledge transfer. The project is a £3.19M business-facing programme providing grants for realising new product and service development. Aspirations in the marine clean energy sector will become ever-more achievable


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through close collaboration with the Marine-i team, key supply chain businesses, stakeholders and major companies.


INTERNATIONALLY-RECOGNISED ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH STAFF


The Marine Institute, which has brought together a group of internationally- recognised academic and research staff


www.wavetidalenergynetwork.co.uk


from the marine and maritime sectors, carries out research, education and innovation whilst training new engineers, scientists, policy-makers, technicians and business managers of the future. With a globally leading team of ocean and coastal engineering researchers and some of the most advanced facilities in the World, the group carries out fundamental and applied research throughout the marine sector.


TESTING


Laboratory testing, CFD, data-gathering and teaching of marine renewable energy,


explained: “Marine-i is designed both to initiate market-led approaches that stimulate innovation as well as respond to ideas created by businesses themselves; either way, the objective is to back those ideas with great support. “Marine is one of the region’s smart specialisations alongside the digital, agri-tech, space & aerospace and e-health areas and through the coordinated approach we adopt through Marine-i, we will create a legacy of innovation within the region’s businesses and a recognition that we work in a place where new products and services can be delivered through our marine supply chains.”


Marine-i


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