Creating depth in partnership

Professor Vincent Emery

Pro Vice-Chancellor (International Relations)

University of Surrey

Overview of presentation

• Facts about University of Surrey

• History and performance of the University Global Partnership Network

• Building multilevel interactions

• Leveraging more from the partnership

• Engaging industrial partners in a new 5G Innovation Centre

• Benefits for partners

• Challenges for success

The University of Surrey

• 6th in the Guardian League Table 2014

• 39th most international University (THE)

• 8th in the country for student satisfaction

in 2014 (91%)

• ~ 13,500 student FTE

• More than 2,300 industry partners

• > 50% research publication feature an

international co-author

• Awarded three Queens Anniversary

Prizes

• £214m turnover

• Economic gross value added £1.4bn

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University Global Partnership Network

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University Global Partnership Network (UGPN)

• Launched in 2011

• Comprises:

• University of Surrey

• North Carolina State University

• University of Sao Paulo

• Unique North-North – North-South partnership

• Grew from bilateral agreements stretching back to 1990s

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UGPN Mission and Vision

Our mission

The mission of the UGPN is to develop sustainable world-class research, education and knowledge transfer through an active international network of selected Universities collaborating in research, learning and teaching to benefit global society.

Our vision

The UGPN will be regarded by key stakeholders as a leader in the field of global academic and research partnerships with an overriding commitment to enhancing the impact of all its endeavours.

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Realising the vision

• Combined approach • Top down • Bottom up

• UGPN led by an executive group comprising 3 international Vice-

Presidents and 1 other representative from each partner

• Meets every 3 months (videocon) • assesses progress • reviews KPIs • oversees selection of research proposals for annual funding

• Annual research fund engages academics and provides pump prime

support for researcher interactions – critical factor for success

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UGPN research fund

• Annual call

• Each partner commits $60K producing a pot of $180K

• Individual academic partnerships apply for:

• Bilateral awards (max $20K)

• Trilateral awards(max $30K)

• Applications favoured which encompass:

• High quality research

• Impactful research

• Potential to leverage follow-on funds

• PhD researcher mobility

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Broad and deep engagement

• 23 papers (10 in 2014) published after 2 rounds of funding

• Journals with IF >3.0

• Involves researchers from all 4 Faculties in Surrey

• Follow-on funding applied for exceeds investment by ~ 23:1

• Funding applications worth £1.1m currently pending

• Surrey and Strathclyde will assume control of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in 2015 and links to National Measurements Offices in USA and Brazil facilitated through UGPN

• Current engagement across the UGPN involves upwards of 100 researchers/administrators

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Facilitating UGPN activities

• Surrey uses its Santander Universities awards to enable:

• researcher mobility

• staff mobility

• strategic initiatives with UGPN partners

• Surrey signed an agreement with Sao Paulo Research Foundation (Fundacao de Amparo a Pequisa do Estado de Sao Paulo – FAPESP) in 2011

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What next for the UGPN?

• UGPN mature enough to bring in new partners

• Scoping based on existing bilateral contacts with UGPN members

• Strategic fit with UGPN

• Mutual benefit essential to ensure expansion is successful

• Initially looking towards universities based in Europe, Australia and Africa

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5G Innovation Centre (5GIC)

Future is about connectivity

• Communications & Control

• Towards Digital Economy and Society

• Modernisation of aging industries

• Transportation

• Energy

• Manufacturing

• Health

• …

• Smart Homes, Cities and Countries

Communication Networks: creating a Super National Critical Infrastructure

• By connecting the other National Critical Infrastructures

Energy & Electricity Food

Telecommunications & ICT

Water Transportation

Government services

Public health

Critical Infrastructures

Control and Modernisation of other industries

• Still 99% of THINGS are not connected

Wireless Standards Evolution – 5G

1983 1991 2001 2011 2021 2031

5G

2041

4G – LTE/LTE-Advanced

3G – WCDMA/HSPA/HSPA +

2G – GSM/GPRS/EDGE

1G - TACS

Next generation Global

standard around 2020

Research & Std

Research & Std

Research & Std

Research &

Std

Timescale getting shorter between Research/Standardisation and Commercialisation

Presented by

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• Service providers

• Infrastructure & device manufacturers

• Test equipment vendors

• Standardisation bodies

• Application & content providers

• Industry forums and alliances

• Regulators and policy makers

• Academia and research centres

• SMEs & other solution providers

Leadership

Research

Revenue

IPR

Teaching

5G

• To become world leading centre for multi-disciplinary communications research

• To be model for collaborations with academic institutions, industry and the community

• To deliver innovative communications solutions in order to generate social and economic value

• To influence future standards and regulation

Growth Leadership 5G Services

5GIC’s Mission

• Access to world-class academics and researchers

• Access to state of the art technology evaluation facility dedicated to 5G technology

• Royalty-free, none-exclusive IPR access to pooled IP for Platinum and Gold members

• Use of a facility to fund research on a bilateral basis by commissioning projects in line with their business strategy

• Ability to effectively and timely influence the 5G technology standardisation through high quality yet cost effective research results from the 5GIC

• Work in a complete ecosystem and build consensus on 5G technologies and standardisation

• Publications in high impact journals

Benefits for Members

Service Providers

Manufacturers

Test Equipment

Vendors

Application providers

Regulatory

5GIC Ecosystem

Benefits for the University

Leadership • To create a world leading centre for multi-disciplinary communications

research Research • To establish high quality publications on theories and practical

performance of 5G advanced technologies

Teaching • To improve teaching quality by training the next generation of multi-

disciplinary communication and system engineers for industry and academia in the UK

IPR • To generate essential IPR

Collaboration • To create a close and sustainable industry/academia partnership which will

influence, direct and inform the development of the emerging 5G standards

Economic Growth • To deliver innovative solutions for the broadband mobile internet in order to

generate social and economic value and create significant downstream benefits for economic growth

5GIC Approach

• Two complementary solutions

• Telecom Big Data utilisation

– Intelligent control

• Infinite Capacity

– Space, Time and Frequency

“Always Sufficient Rate” to give users the perception of Infinite Capacity

Small Cell Technologies

Mechanical and environmental integration is a key enabler for massive Small Cell Rollout

Surrey Centre of Excellence:

Mobile Broadband Internet-5G

Spectrum 40MHz (2.6GHz)

Data

Center

Thank you for your attention