Research

Links with Industry

CSEE Joint Workshop with Industry Event

How We Work with Industry

We work with industry in three main ways:

• Research Projects sponsored by industry or in which there is industrial involvement but the main funding comes from a research council, such as EPSRC Case Awards and Industrial CASE Awards, or the EU.
   

• Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP's) in which the funding comes from the Department of Trade and Industry and the partner company.  These are negotiated through our Research and Enterprise Office who will in the first instance discuss a project with a potential partner and one or more members of academic staff.  If the project is to be taken further, they will also prepare the formal application for funding, and if this is successful, will assist with the administration of the project.  Since the involvement of one or more academic staff is essential, potential partners may also start the process by talking to a suitable member of academic staff if they can identify one (see our list of research interests, for example).
   

• Consultancy contracts.  These may be negotiated with individual academic staff, or through the Research and Enterprise Office.

Industrial collaborators and companies who have donated equipment include:

• Active Web Solutions

• Altera Corp (San Jose, California)

• BICC Plc

• British Telecom

• Centre for Marine and Petroleum Technology

• Guidance Control System Limited (Leicestershire, UK)

• Hitachi, France

• HM Computing Ltd (Worcester)

• Industrial Control Services Technologies UK

• Jobserve

• National Power Plc

• Oracle

• Radiometrix

• Vodafone R&D, UK

• Wind River Systems Inc (Alameda, California)

Our research collaborations with other Departments include:

• Dublin City University

• Heriot-Watt University

• Honda Research Institute Europe (Modelling Distribution of Pareto-optimal Solutions for Multi-Objective Optimisation)

• Open University

• Partners as part of the EU project PHOSPHORUS

• Robert Gordon University

• University College London

• University of Bremen (Germany)

• University of Kent

• University of Limerick

• University of Liverpool

• University of Newcastle

• University of Pavia (Italy)

• University of Southampton

• University of Trento (Italy)

• University of Waikato (New Zealand)

• Writtle College

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