Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
For over 45 years Knowledge Transfer Partnerships have been helping businesses innovate for growth by accessing the UK’s world-leading knowledge base.
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Enterprise and education, working together
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) are designed to build long-lasting and mutually beneficial collaborations between the working and learning worlds.
In every Knowledge Base (university, research organisation or catapult) around the UK, there’s a wealth of talent and innovative thinking. We apply these vital resources to businesses, via a KTP, by uniting people around the common goal of affecting positive change through innovation.
If you’re a business, forming a long-term partnership with a Knowledge Base offers direct access to research expertise and graduate talent, embedding knowledge and research for long term benefit. If you’re a university, research organisation or catapult, a KTP is a chance to apply research to a real-world challenge, contributing research impact, opening up commercial possibilities and tapping into additional funding. And if you’re a graduate, this programme could accelerate your career and put you at the beating heart of your chosen speciality.
KTPs – and the newer Management KTPs, focused on expanding management capability – are here to facilitate these relationships, matching the right businesses and institutions to work together and maximise the benefits for everyone. And those benefits are not just economic. KTP delivers positive environmental and societal impact too.
Our team has a wealth of experience in forming these critical partnerships. Talk to us now and start your journey to an inspiring and rewarding KTP collaboration.
KTP Awards
Every year we celebrate the best projects at the Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Awards, which this year will be held in Birmingham on 27 November 2024. This year’s winners will be announced soon. Register your interest in attending the awards.
Closing dates for KTP rounds in 2024-25
- Round 1 – 10 April 2024
- Round 2 – 26 June 2024
- Round 3 – 25 September 2024
- Round 4 – closed on 4 December 2024: click here for archived details
- Round 5 – 5 February 2025 (opens 9 December 2024: details coming soon)