A University Strategy for Open

Innovation

Prof Tim Bedford

Deputy Associate Principal

University of Strathclyde

• Founded in 1796 as a “place of useful learning”

• Commitment to be a leading international

Technological University, through international

collaboration and innovation strategies

• University Values: Innovative, bold, ambitious,

collaborative, people-oriented

• Partnership models used to engage with external

stakeholders

• Cross-faculty interdisciplinary strategy themes

support internal and external collaboration:Energy, Health and Wellbeing, Advanced Manufacturing and

Materials, Ocean Sea and Space, Measurement Science and

Enabling Technologies, Society and Policy, Innovation and

Entrepreneurship

• Innovation focus has improved our research:

REF2014 demonstrated now in UK top 20 for

Research Intensity

University of Strathclyde

University of Strathclyde

Innovation StrategyStrathclyde's strategy for innovation will achieve economic and societal impact

through:

o Creating and accelerating innovation partnerships with private and public sector

organisations

o Building a Technology and Innovation Zone in the heart of Glasgow, with associated

full-scale R&D centres

o Developing and nurturing innovation talent among our staff, students, alumni, our

partner organisations and the wider community

o Supporting start-ups, spin outs and innovative SMEs

o Forming and leveraging national and international networks to support expertise,

knowledge and investment

o Applying the best innovation practice and policy through our new Innovation

Research Institute

Launched in 2015 by the Scottish Deputy First Minister

• We use a range of partnership models to engage.

• Underlying principles:

– Industry leadership

– Recognize company characteristics, culture and market dynamic

– Trust and confidence in the partnership are vital

• Consider today

– Collaborative Centres: Tiered Membership

– Scottish Innovation Centres

– Scottish Enterprise - Strathclyde Business School OI project

Three different examples of OI

Collaborative Centres:

Tiered Membership

• Increased speed of innovation

requires collaboration – across

the supply chain and with

companies large and small…

• Tiered membership model

recognizes roles for leading large

scale collaborators and

innovative small supply chain

partners

• Financial contributions and IP

rights depend on tier.

• Key examples are AFRC and

CMAC

Tiered Membership

Industry Centres

AFRC Network

Recent announcement for creation of National Manufacturing Institute for Scotland led by Strathclyde for Scottish Government

Continuous Manufacturing and

Crystallisation (CMAC)

• Established 2011, Industry led

• £80m Portfolio of funding

– EPSRC Centre; DTC, ICT

– £34m UK RPIF Capital equipment

– £23m AMSCI Supply Chain

• 100 staff and rising : international talent

• Pre-competitive, leverage

• £100m Technology Innovation Centre @ Strathclyde, Glasgow

physical hub

• 3 founding tier1s GSK, AZ, Novartis. Bayer joined

• Tier 2 technology companies

Scottish Innovation Centres

Scottish Innovation Centres

“…Scottish Innovation Centres will create sustainable and

internationally ambitious open communities of university staff,

research institutes, businesses and others to deliver

economic growth and wider benefits for Scotland”.

Bespoke and appropriate delivery models for each IC but all are

structured to respond and deliver on demand-led priorities.

Each is evolving a different way of engaging with its “problem

owner” base… so no single type of SIC

SFC funding for the IC programme over the initial 5 year period:

• £110M for core/infrastructure;

• capital equipment £14M (2014);

• masters level training £2M p.a.;

• challenge funding (up to £1M in 2015).

Growing an Industrial Biotech sector

• Industry Membership

• Community building

• Global IB Community Engagement

Industry Engagement

• Collaborative Funding Calls

• Industry Challenges

• Open Access Equipment CentresProjects

• Collaborative PhDs

• MSc Industrial Biotechnology

• HND Industrial BiotechnologySkills

Strathclyde is the Hub University for IBioIC

74 fee-paying Industrial Members

17 Academic Partners

Digital Health Institute

DHI is a public funded organisation hosted by the

University of Strathclyde, with key partner, Glasgow

School of Art

DHI is an Innovation Centre funded by the Scottish

Funding Council, initially over a four year period. The

next phase of funding is currently in the process of

being agreed

Civic Impact, Business Impact and

Academic Impact

The essential elements of the digital health revolution include wireless devices, hardware sensors and software sensing technologies, microprocessors and integrated circuits, the Internet, social networking, mobile/cellular networks and body area networks, Health IT (aka health information technology), genomics, and personal genetic information.

Scottish Enterprise –

Strathclyde Business School

Open Innovation Project

• Government initiated project to encourage an open innovation culture in

Scottish organisations - 2015-2019

• Need to make Scottish Business more innovation active and increase

investment in R&D

• Support adoption of Open Innovation methodologies in 13 cohort

companies based in Scotland - Average of 100 calls over 4 years expected,

with 50% of solutions from Scottish SME base

• Draw upon competencies and technologies in wider Scottish SME network

to support in-bound open innovation

• Foster an open innovation climate in the cohort organisations- 8 cohort

meetings over two years

• Disseminate best practice, understand “What Works”

• Scottish Enterprise has selected companies and supported employment of

OI champions, Strathclyde Business School Innovation Researchers

support OI Practice workshops, interviewing key staff and tracking progress

Scottish Enterprise - SBS

Open Innovation Project

• Open innovation principle: Companies can no longer afford to

rely on their own research in a world market place…cost,

pace, risk mitigation

• Scottish Companies still viewed (in general) as not being

sufficiently innovative…so different starting point to original

US Open Innovation

• Scottish R&D paradox: GERD relatively high, BERD relatively

low… so Scottish Government working to increase Business

investment in R&D

• Cohort companies supported by government for 2 years in

order to implement open innovation practices

– Understanding open innovation practice is still in early

stages

Why Open Innovation?

First company-led engagement with SMEs taking place at our Technology and Innovation Centre in 2 weeks!

Strathclyde University

AFRC

TIC

PNDC

SEN

SIPPICMAC

Catapult HVM

Catapult Future Cities

Fraunhofer

Catapult ORE

TSB Future Cities

Demonstrator (GCC)

WARC

Scottish ICs

Catapult Satellite

Technologies

S.E. inovoBuilding

Creating the Strathclyde Innovation Eco-system

SME Accelerator programme

Regional SME support

programmes

International Partners and

Networks

New Centres

NPL

Enterprise Campus

Spin out and startup community