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EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account

In November 2012, the government announced a £60m investment in UK universities to help our most pioneering scientists and engineers create successful businesses from their research, improve industrial collaboration and foster greater entrepreneurship.

Bristol's Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)

The University of Bristol has been awarded £2.4m to:

• Widen participation in business engagement and knowledge exchange
• Broaden and enhance the skills of the researchers funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) at the University
• Accelerate the commercialisation and impact of EPSRC funded research

For more information, download our IAA leaflet (PDF, 1.2 Mb)

Schemes

• Knowledge Transfer Secondments
  Up to £50k for secondments to/from the University, part-time or full-time for any researcher, academic or industry collaborator. Find examples of previous secondments.

• Proof of Principle awards
  Up to £15k for developing the commercial potential of research, exploring markets and potential partners/investors, developing prototypes, and taking the first steps in generating research impact.

• Proof of Concept awards
  Up to £100k for developing specific commercial opportunities, enabling partners and investors to take on the next stages of development and advancing the Technology Readiness Level of research. These proposals must be developed with the University’s Research Commercialisation team.

Awarded projects

Find a list of awarded IAA projects.

Read the news item on the IAA awards made.

How to apply

Find detailed guidance and an application form (UoB only).

If you have a project that would benefit from a secondment or a principle/concept development study, please contact Andrew Wray or Lucy Stephens in RED's Alliance Development group.

Examples of previous secondments

Case study	Type (Out/In)	Supervisor	Secondee	Partner organisation	Duration	Time commitment	Department
A hybrid method for obtaining residual stresses	Out	Professor David J Smith	Dr Sayeed Hossain	VEQTER Ltd	1 year	Full-time	Mechanical Engineering
Manufacturing miniature optical probes	In	Dr John Day	Dr Joanne Hutchings	Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	1 year	1 day per week	Interface Analysis Centre
New ways to see defects in welded components at power stations	Out	Professor Bruce Drinkwater	Dr Jie Zhang	AMEC (formerly Serco)	6 months	2-3 days per week	Mechanical Engineering
Analysing wireless connectivity from mathematical billiards	In	Dr Carl Dettmann	Dr M. Zubeir Bocus	Toshiba Research Europe Ltd	3 months	Full-time	School of Mathematics
Wireless Sensor Networks for aerospace	Out	Dr Steve Burrow	Dr Lindsay Clare	Systems Engineering & Assessment (SEA) Ltd	1 year	Full-time	Aerospace Engineering
Probing aerosols, one particle at a time	Out	Professor Jonathan Reid	Dr Rachael Miles	Bristol Industrial and Research Associates Limited (Biral)	3 months	3 days per week	Chemistry

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