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Collaborative R&D Awards

The Collaborative R&D Awards offers support for short term commercially focused projects with external partners. It supports a range of actvities e.g PDRA or PhD researchers, based either at the University of seconded to external partners. Below are brief summaries on the awards that the KTA has assisted in resourcing:

Developing novel, green roof substrates - Dr Duncan Cameron and Dr Gareth Phoenix

Compressed domain video watermarking - Dr Charith Abhayaratne

Develop the casting of polymer adhesive/carrier films - Professor Frank R Jones

Machinability testing of steels for gear manufacture - Dr Tom Slatter

Mammalian cell factories for biopharmaceutical production - Professor David James

The energy masterplan - Dr Hasim Altan