CE: 101 Innovation and IndustryThursday, 14th July 2011 (15:30 – 18:00) with site tour at 14.30 Daresbury Science & Innovation campus |
This Chemical Element event looks at the work being done by the Innovation and Knowledge Centre teams, including an insight into the industrial applications. This event includes an optional tour of the Science & Technology Facilities Councils, Daresbury Laboratory. The tour will be immediately prior to the main event. During the tour you will be able to see the Innovations Technology Access Centre, the laboratory based incubator, The Engineering Technology Centre home to world class engineering capabilities and the Virtual Engineering Centre where prototypes can be visualised before production.
During the main meeting:
Andrew Bennett from STFC will provide an introduction to the Science & Technology Facilities Council and how it is helping high tech SMEs with research and development projects and how to get access to the facilities, expertise and services of the research council.
The Knowledge Centre for Material Chemistry will give an overview of their current activity. Adam Chaplin who leads the polymer research team at Victrex will be speaking about the work that Victrex have been doing with the KCMC.
Colin Tattam from Chemistry Innovation and Yvonne Armitage from the Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network will be presenting on innovation opportunities for the chemistry-using businesses and a case study from the Industrial Biotech sector. For a copy of the programme please click on the download below.
To view the presentations please click on the links below
mike_holmes_-_kcmc.pdf
colin_tattam_-_chemistry_innovation.pdf
yvonne_armitage_-_biosciences_ktn.pdf
