A university, RTO, college or Catapult leads a partnership that embeds expertise and an associate inside a UK business to solve a strategic innovation challenge.
A practical route for an established business that needs academic or research expertise to build, validate and adopt an AI product or capability.
01The knowledge-base partner submits the application.
02The business partner must normally have at least two employees.
03The project requires a strategic innovation challenge, associate and business contribution.
01Identify the right knowledge-base partner and academic lead.
02Define the business transformation rather than a generic AI experiment.
03Build the associate role, budget, IP and exploitation plan together.
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