Partnerships and Collaborators
In today's knowledge-based economy research, innovation and entrepreneurship are crucial driving factors for the long-term efficiency, competitiveness and economic growth of the University, the North East and UK. Increasingly, the UK Government has an expectation for academic research to be more aligned with industrial requirements and to generate a return on public funded investment.
Opportunities to use services provided by the University in the wider community include:
Newcastle University can be seen as an ideas factory where some of the brightest people develop innovative solutions to the problems of the modern world. The University is committed to working with companies to improve their competitiveness and productivity evidenced by the creation of specialised units such as:
- Resource Centre for Innovation and Design
- Engineering Design Centre
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)
- Industrial Statistics Research Unit
- Design Unit (Gear Technology Centre)
- Centre for Software Reliability
- Land Use and Water Resources Research
- Nafferton Ecological Farming Group
Wider development and collaboration can also be seen in our close work with the regional development agency One NorthEast and other key partners. Further collaborative initiatives include:
- extensive European links,
- joint investment in research facilities
- creation of spin-out companies.
The establishment of the Research & Enterprise Team further supports the interface between the academic community, and the business and public sectors.
