Technology Strategy Board
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships is a Technology Strategy Board Programme, enabling innovation in business. The role of lead sponsor for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships transferred from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (formerly the Department for Trade and Industry) to the new Technology Strategy Board in July 2007.
The Technology Strategy Board is a business-led executive non-departmental public body, established by the Government. Its mission is to promote and support research into, and development and exploitation of, technology and innovation for the benefit of UK business, in order to increase economic growth and improve the quality of life.
The Technology Strategy Board will set its priorities and direct funding under its control to:
- Help leading sectors and businesses maintain their position in the face of global competition
- Stimulate those sectors and businesses with the capacity to be among the best in the world to fulfil
their potential
- Ensure that the emerging technologies of today become the growth sectors of tomorrow
- Combine all these elements in such a way that the UK becomes a centre for investment by world-leading
companies
Delivering the Technology Strategy
Along with Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, the Technology Strategy is delivered through the following main activities:
- Innovation Platforms - The integration of a range of technologies combined with better coordination
of policy, regulation and procurement instruments across Government to address a major societal
challenge and to deliver a step change in UK performance
- Key Technology Areas - Strategies for identifying priority technologies and the activities required to
ensure wealth generation
- Technology Programme - Collaborative R&D enables business and research communities to
work together on R&D projects from which successful new products, processes and services
can emerge
- Technology Programme - Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTNs) - National over-arching Networks
which aim to improve the UK’s innovation performance by increasing the breadth and depth
of the knowledge transfer of technology into UK based businesses;
- Emerging Technologies - Providing the opportunity for businesses to take advantage at an
early stage of some of the exciting research that is taking place in the science base