HEIF Applications

If CEB wants to be in the running for extra resource in knowledge exchange, we need to have our application to the school by 27 February.

And we need your ideas to achieve this.

Please respond to ehl27@cam.ac.uk or grants@ceb.cam.ac.uk by the end of the day on Tuesday 18 February to allow time to pull ideas together and start drafting the application.

For any questions or a chat, contact Helen on e-mail, Teams or call into room 2.11 at CEB – she is at Rachael’s desk most days.

A quick and pragmatic approach to decide what to apply for:

• Articulate what we see as the gaps and needs in CEB
• Define what tasks need to be done
• Describe a role or roles which incorporate the tasks to cover the above

Having attended the recent Research Committee, I made a start on ‘wish lists’ following a few brief exchanges with colleagues.

Please comment on, add to, and shape the lists below.

What are your priorities?

Which are not important to CEB?

Potential gaps/needs:

1. Building on links with industry and industrial partners
2. Commercialisation facilitation (create and incubate spinouts)
3. Regulatory space around healthcare innovation
4. Becoming more active and involved with policy
5. Scalability of sustainable technologies

Example tasks:

• A person who knows the research and academic specialities in CEB and uses industry portals to find matches and calls on sites like  Konfer, Halo as well as build CEB presence/profile on them
• Introductory training for early career PIs around working with industrial partners
• Reading and supporting applications for impact grants
• Support to increase industry funded PhDs
• Networking representation through initiatives like https://decarbconnect.com/ and https://connecthealthtech.mn.co/
• Increase avenues for translation
• Support for emerging spinouts and commercialisation of research and interface with CUDAR / Cambridge Enterprise
• Oversight of the broader landscape: a) finding out about funding opportunities b) building consortia and c) making connections to reach new audiences
• A person to create and run a CEB database/CRM of industry contacts and connections, with research interests and academic profile. This could be used for consortia building, comms, strengthening application information in grants and for donor relations
• Resource to facilitate KTP awards – i.e. quarterly liaison with innovate UK

Example roles:

• Knowledge Transfer Facilitator
• Business Development Manager
• Commercialisation Facilitator

Directly incurred costs:

• CEB events – catering, travel for speakers
• Attendance at industry events
• Market research costs