Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP): 2023 to 2024 Round 4
12-36 months
£8.5k/month
06.09.2023
The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme allows a UK-registered business or not-for-profit organisation to partner with a ‘knowledge base partner’, which is either a UK higher education (HE) or further education (FE) institution, research and technology organisation (RTO) or Catapult.
The KTP partnership brings new skills and the latest academic thinking into the business partner to deliver a specific, strategic innovation project. The knowledge base partner recruits the ‘associate’ to work on the project. The associate has the opportunity to lead strategic development within the business, developing new skills and gaining valuable experience.
Check Your Eligibility
Your application must be for a specific, strategic innovation project that tackles one or more challenges faced by the business partner.
It can be any kind of project and must show:
Innovate UK will not fund:
Each Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) is a partnership between the following:
The definition KTP uses for not-for-profit organisations, charities or charitable businesses include:
Knowledge base partner
The knowledge base partner cannot work alone. The knowledge base partner must lead the project and must:
As part of their involvement in the project, the knowledge base partner must provide a case study to Innovate UK, using the template provided, upon completion of the project.
Business partners cannot work alone. They must develop the project with a UK knowledge base that can provide the right skills to meet the knowledge gap within the business.
Subcontractors are not allowed in this competition.