Adhesives at TWI

Partnership and collaboration

TWI works in partnership with its Members. TWI also collaborates with Members and external organisations. As a result, Member companies benefit from TWI's increased experience and broad network of contacts.

The following are examples of TWI's external collaborations, partnerships and research management activities:

NCN
Health Technologies Knowledge Transfer Network (HT KTN)
Medical Devices Faraday Partnership
Healthy Aims
EPPIC Faraday Partnership
NDE of Adhesion - DTI project
Adhesives Design Toolkit
Conductive adhesives project with NPL

About the Health Technologies KTN

Health technologies KTN is a Knowledge Transfer Network funded by the UK Government, dedicated to accelerating innovation and technology exploitation in the broad health industries sector. The Health Technologies (HT) KTN started in December 2006, having migrated from the Medical Devices Faraday Partnership. As such, we were able to take advantage of an existing proven partnership and appropriate governance structures although continuous improvements have been made in line with any modern business and examples of good practice from other KTNs. The Director, Mrs Sue Dunkerton and the Programme Manager, Professor Mehdi Tavakoli of HT KTN are both based at TWI. The organisational structure is shown in Fig. 1.

We provide unique offerings to our members, with benefits arising from one-on-one consultations on specific needs to the national and international development of technology strategy that influences future finance. Our vision is to be recognised as a world class initiator, translator and disseminator of research and knowledge that contributes to excellence in UK science and leads to rapid exploitation for UK economic and clinical benefit.

We aim to provide members with:

Knowledge of the UK innovation landscape, signposting and personal introductions
Exposure to industry, government, partners and the market
Special Interest Groups exchanging knowledge in key areas of clinical discipline
Finding partners for new collaborations
Finding funding sources from public and private sources, UK and European
Technology audits/Support for commercialisation and spinouts
Market and project information - dissemination of your capabilities/needs
Sharing of best practice - nationally and globally
Portal (for information, collaboration space and conference facilities) - www.healthtechktn.com

And we have new activities which support links between all parts of the community:

Statements of Clinical Need
Technology translation between the UK's Innovative Manufacturing Research Centres and the clinical and industrial base
Active Special Interest Groups in Health Technology-related areas.

Join today and take advantage of this extensive knowledge resources.
To register with the Healthcare Technologies KTN please see our website at healthtech.globalwatchonline.com