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Ben Peace – Sustainable Manufacturing Lead

17th June 2016, Liverpool

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Advanced manufacturing: Success & resilience through collaborative innovation

The Innovate UK family

The Knowledge Transfer Network stimulates innovation by:• Linking organisations & exchanging

knowledge• Providing access to funding & support• Promoting exemplars

• 120 staff• 60,000 members• Free to join

ktn-uk.org

http://tinyurl.com/ManufacturingCommissionReport

“The UK has some of the most efficient and productive factories in the world, and we have a wave of new production technologies emerging…..

We believe that we must take advantage of this leadership moment to make the UK more resilient and a provider of solutions to the rest of the world.”

“Industrial Evolution”, Manufacturing Commission, October 2015http://tinyurl.com/ManufacturingCommissionReport

“Although many of the trends which will shape the future landscape for manufacturers are beyond our direct control, our response to these trends is not.”

“Industrial Evolution”, Manufacturing Commission, October 2015http://tinyurl.com/ManufacturingCommissionReport

Source: “Industrial Evolution”, Manufacturing Commission, October 2015

• Four slides of introduction

horizons.innovateuk.org

Source: “Industrial Evolution”, Manufacturing Commission, October 2015

InnovationCollaboration

LeadershipSystem Redesign

“Greater collaboration between companies and other actors must be a central part of a more sustainable manufacturing system.”

“Industrial Evolution”, Manufacturing Commission, October 2015http://tinyurl.com/ManufacturingCommissionReport

“Innovation is needed to increase UK manufacturing productivity, material efficiency and competitiveness into the long term. This may come from many avenues, for example:

• taking an innovative step in addressing the manufacturing readiness of growing sectors

• the development of more flexible or efficient processes”

Manufacturing competition£15m Materials & Manufacturing call

tinyurl.com/IUKMMComp

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• Setting up collaborative partnerships

• Providing access to funding & support

• Linking the innovation landscape

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SummaryKTN: The UK’s innovation network

Get in touch! Ben Peace, KTNe-mail: ben.peace@ktn-uk.orgtwitter: @BenPeace; @KTNUK

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JAMES BAKER