{"id":70700,"date":"2016-05-19T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T08:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=77c8afd483eede24eaacc23ca5d71cda"},"modified":"2016-05-19T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T08:38:12","slug":"news-story-improving-business-productivity-apply-for-partnership-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70700","title":{"rendered":"News story: Improving business productivity: apply for partnership funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK is seeking applications for funding from business-university partnerships with plans to improve competitiveness and productivity by employing a recent graduate with relevant expertise.<\/p>\n<p>The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme is a three-way partnership between a business, an academic institution and a recent graduate.<\/p>\n<p>The academic institution employs the graduate, who works at the company. The graduate, known as the \u2018associate\u2019, brings new skills and knowledge to the business.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"ktp-increases-business-profits\">KTP increases business profits<\/h2>\n<p>A KTP can bring major benefits to a business. Recent research found businesses taking part achieved an average increase in annual profit of more than \u00a31 million and created two new jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Academic partners produced on average 3 new research projects and 2 new research papers for each project, and around 60% of associates were employed by the partner business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/case-studies\/signal-media-start-up-transformed-by-university-collaboration\">Find out how a KTP transformed London-based media monitoring company Signal Media.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"information-about-ktps\">Information about KTPs<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>you can apply for a KTP at any time and applications are assessed at four different points in the year. The closing date for the next assessment is 6 July 2016<\/li>\n<li>businesses or not-for-profit organisations of any size can apply<\/li>\n<li>KTP is open to universities, colleges or research technology organisations<\/li>\n<li>SMEs could receive up to two-thirds of their costs in grant and large companies up to half<\/li>\n<li>the average annual contribution of an SME to a KTP project is \u00a323,000 and of a large business \u00a330,000<\/li>\n<li>there are a series of local KTP advisers to help you with your application<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/knowledge-transfer-partnerships-what-they-are-and-how-to-apply\">Find out more about KTP, how to apply and the contact details of your local KTP adviser.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses and universities and colleges can apply for funding to support partnerships that help improve competitiveness and productivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}