strategy
The announcement follows the
government’s Autumn Statement commitment to invest an additional £2 billion per year for research and innovation by 2020/21 to unlock the full potential of the UK’s research base in areas such as robotics and biotechnology.
Future Manufacturing Hub in Targeted Healthcare The current ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to drug development is challenged by the ability to treat patients as individuals. The hub will provide the manufacturing infrastructure and capabilities needed to enable UK manufacturers to exploit fully medical precision advances, through new technologies, skilled personnel, IP and spin-outs. The hub and its spokes will address the manufacturing challenges to ensure that new targeted biological medicines can be developed quickly and manufactured at a cost affordable to society.
Led by: EPSRC grant:
University College London £10m
Total contribution from project partners:
£13.7m
Future Manufacturing Hub in Manufacture using Advanced Powder Processes MAPP's vision is to deliver on the promise of powder-based manufacturing processes to provide low energy, low cost, and low waste high value manufacturing route and products to secure UK manufacturing productivity and growth. MAPP will deliver on the promise of advanced powder processing technologies through creation of new, connected, intelligent, cyberphysical manufacturing environments to achieve 'right first time' product manufacture.
Led by: EPSRC grant:
University of Sheffield £10m
Total contribution from project partners:
£7.2m
The Future Composites Manufacturing Hub The Future Composites Manufacturing Hub will enable a step change in manufacturing with advanced polymer composite materials. The hub will drive the development of automated manufacturing technologies that deliver components and structures for demanding applications, particularly in the aerospace, transportation, construction and energy sectors.
Led by: EPSRC grant:
University of Nottingham £10m
Total contribution from project partners:
£9m
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Future Advanced Metrology Hub The vision of the hub is to create ground- breaking embedded metrology and universal metrology informatics systems to be applied across the manufacturing value chain. The resulting pervasive embedding and integration of manufacturing metrology by the Hub will have far reaching implications for UK manufacturing as maximum improvements in product quality, minimisation of waste/rework, and minimum lead-times will ultimately deliver direct productivity benefits and improved competitiveness.
Led by: EPSRC grant:
University of Huddersfield £10m
Total contribution from project partners:
£15.2m
Future Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC) Research This hub research is driven by the societal need to produce medicines and materials for modern living through novel manufacturing processes. The vision is to quickly and reliably design a process to manufacture a given material into the ideal particle using an efficient continuous process, and ensure its effective delivery to the consumer.
Led by: EPSRC grant:
University of Strathclyde £10m
Total contribution from project partners:
£31.2m
Future Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Hub The hub will research into large scale Compound Semiconductor manufacturing and in manufacturing integrated Compound Semiconductors on Silicon. This will radically boost the uptake and application of Compound Semiconductor technology by applying the manufacturing approaches of Silicon to Compound Semiconductors. It will also exploit the highly advantageous electronic, magnetic, optical and power handling properties of Compound Semiconductors while utilising the cost and scaling advantage of silicon technology where best suited and generate novel integrated functionality such as sensing, data processing and communication.
Led by: EPSRC grant:
Total contribution from project partners:
Cardiff University £10m
£11.2m
Funded research schemes to attract £106m private
investment IMPERIAL College London and the London School of Economics are the first universities to receive funding for their research projects in the fifth round of the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund.
The two outstanding projects will receive £52m of investment in 2018-19 and 2019-20, to drive innovation and support the UK’s economic growth. Between them they will attract over £106m of additional private investment.
Through the fund, HEFCE has allocated over £450m to 32 projects with funding from 2014-17, attracting £1.2 billion of investment from business and charities. An additional £400m of funding was announced for UKRPIF in the 2015 Budget to 2021. Round 5 will allocate £200m in 2018-19 and 2019-20, while a further round will allocate the remaining £200 million in 2019-20 and 2020-21. The remaining £150m available through this round of UKRPIF will be allocated early this year.
The Imperial College Biomedical Engineering Hub, awarded £20m, will be based at Imperial’s new White City campus, and will house a clinical facility side-by-side with multidisciplinary laboratories and offices for translational research initiatives. It is designed to facilitate the seamless translation of cutting-edge research into real-world clinical solutions.
The International Inequalities Institute at LSE, awarded £32m, will study the risks to social cohesion, democratic systems and economic prosperity demand evidence-based interventions. Purpose-built research facilities will spark new ideas and innovative solutions, involve research users in conception, design and delivery, and bring research ideas to practical implementation.
Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson said: “The successful bids demonstrate the breadth of the UK’s scientific expertise, and are exactly the types of projects our upcoming Industrial Strategy will look to support.”
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