What's in it for Research Organisations?

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships can help Research and Technology Organisations and Research Institutes to:

• Extend their services to business customers
• Enhance their levels of industrially relevant research
• Develop their own staff

A government grant, plus the contribution from the company partner, fully covers a Research Organisation's costs of participating in a Knowledge Transfer Partnership; the grant also includes a significant contribution to overhead costs.

Through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, research staff in RTOs and Research Institutes can:

• Assist strategic change in businesses by the commercialisation of their research results
• Stimulate innovation
• Lead rewarding collaborations with innovative businesses
• Extend collaborations with developing businesses
• Gain ideas for further research and development projects
• Supervise and act as mentors for postgraduates working on company-based projects
• Enhance their own skills and knowledge
• Publish high quality research papers