The deadline for responses to the new AHRC strategy for arts and humanities research, and the AHRC’s role in the funding landscape is fast approaching!
This is your opportunity as the arts and humanities community to feed into the Strategy document, but you will have to act fast – the deadline for responses is the 8th November.
More details and the draft document can be found on the AHRC website.
A new report by the Council for Industry and Higher Education has highlighted the ability of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships to build sustainable innovation capability in companies without an existing track record in open innovation.
Based on a study commissioned by the Technology Strategy Board and the Research Councils, the report explores how such collaborations between business and the knowledge base can overcome the barriers to knowledge transfer and deliver successful innovation projects – at the same time stimulating organisational learning so the company becomes more innovative in the long term.
To read the report, ‘Key Attributes for Successful Knowledge Transfer Partnerships,’ click here.
GrowthAccelerator, is a new £200m Government backed programme that aims to provide small businesses across England with the know-how and ability to achieve rapid and sustainable growth.
GrowthAccelerator is delivered by some of the country’s leading business growth specialists and will provide high quality coaching and other support focused on identifying and meeting each business’s specific needs.
This support will include:
GrowthAccelerator has been developed for businesses with the capacity, commitment and ambition to double their turnover or employment within three years. Many of the businesses that the Technology Strategy Board works with and supports are exactly those that this service is aiming to attract and engage with. We are therefore working closely with the GrowthAccelerator programme to cross-refer potential clients and to ensure a good fit between our respective offerings and activities.
GrowthAccelerator is being delivered across England by leading business advice specialists Grant Thornton, Pera, Oxford Innovation and Winning Pitch, together with a range of specialist local partners. It has an impressive team of coaches that have a track record of delivering successful growth in businesses of all sizes and in all sectors and regions
For more information and to see how GrowthAccelerator could help your business, please visit their website at: www.growthaccelerator.com
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) have issued an invitation to the environmental science community and its stakeholders to participate in a community event on the 20th November 2012 to be held at the Manchester Conference Centre, Weston Building, Sackville Street, Manchester.
This event will allow you to influence NERC’s strategic direction and research priorities from 2013 onwards. The day will be split into two parts; the morning session will focus on developing NERC’s new strategy and provide participants with an opportunity to discuss it with NERC’s Chief Executive and Directors. The afternoon session will be focused on NERC’s strategic research priorities. It will provide participants with an opportunity to engage Theme Leaders and NERC staff in discussions about emerging theme action plans.
The event will be open for registration from 10:00. The morning session will commence at 11:00 with a plenary session, followed by lunch at 12:30.
In the afternoon each theme session will be run twice and, therefore, it is possible for participants to attend discussions on two different themes.
An agenda for this event is available below.
Early registration is recommended.
Please use our online registration form to apply to attend the event. The deadline for registering to attend is the 9th November 2012.
For further details of this event please contact Jane Kendallor Poppy Leeder at NERC.
With the AHRC’s current Strategic Plan (2007 – 2012) expiring at the end of the year, the AHRC is in the process of drafting its vision for the arts and humanities and the AHRC’s role in the funding landscape for a new Strategic Plan. The plan will chart the course for future funding of arts and humanities research over the next five years and the AHRC is keen to ensure that the arts and humanities community is able to feed in comments before the plan is launched in early 2013.
A draft Strategic Plan, drawn up in consultation with the AHRC’s Council and Advisory Board, will be made available for comment between the week commencing 8th October and the week commencing 5th November. Early notice is being given to ensure that all who wish to respond to the draft plan are able to do so.
Comments received by the deadline will be considered by members of the AHRC’s Executive, Council and Advisory Board, during the revision and refinement stage in November.
Further information on the comment process will be made available in due course.