Knowledge Exchange, Collaboration and Tender Opportunities

Offer your expertise and knowledge to an SME to help them to develop products and services whilst opening up job opportunities for promising graduates.

How working with an innovative SME can help you.

Our collaboration opportunities offer a great way to gain real life insights into your area of expertise and advance your knowledge.

PUTTING RESEARCH INTO PRACTISE

Apply academic research to real-life projects, furthering your knowledge and understanding whilst helping to develop innovative products and services.

GRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES

Providing collaboration opportunities with SMEs looking to work with Universities and talented graduates.

RECOGNITION FOR UNIVERSITIES

Through contributing to the development of products and services with exciting implications for society.

TENDER OPPORTUNITIES

A great way of using existing skills and knowledge to support real innovation and develop new products.

Knowledge Exchange Collaborations

Available to Academics only

KEEPs/RICs

Blum Health Limited

Expertise is required to help finalise the ideation phase of a software design that will help increase the efficiency and effectiveness of colonoscopies as part of the bowel cancer screening programme and help address the failure of 22% of procedures due to inefficiencies within the healthcare system.

Deadline: 8/2/2021

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KEEPs/RICs

Bromley Emergency Training and Research Ltd (BETAR Ltd)

BETAR Ltd is an independent training provider largely to doctors, to help with postgraduate training and professional examinations. Most of the training is directed towards acute and emergency medicine specialties and expertise is sought to produce physical models to be used for ultrasound training.

Deadline: 7/28/2021

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KEEPs/RICs

Ionech Limited

Furthering the technological development of our proof of concept to develop a prototype product for refinement with commercial partners. This innovation project will develop a prototype of the Ionech Next Generation Energy System (INGES) for use in applications requiring 12v/24v DC current at low watt output.

Deadline: 8/23/2021

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KEEPs/RICs

Mykor Ltd

Our proposed innovation is carbon-negative natural insulation made from locally sourced forestry and construction waste. Our fabrication technique involves the use of mycology to mix mycelium and cellulosic waste. Mycelium is the "root" of mushrooms and functions as a natural adhesive. The strains used will bind the waste material and grow in the span of four weeks, involve minimum use of water, and cure at low temperatures.

Deadline: 7/28/2021

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We provide businesses with flexible opportunities for innovation.

We are a partnership of six academic institutions who work together to promote KEEP+ to eligible businesses developing innovative new products and services.

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Sven Kuenzel, Academic Supervisor, University of Greenwich

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Collaboration and Tender Opportunities

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Knowledge Exchange, Collaboration and Tender Opportunities

Offer your expertise and knowledge to an SME to help them to develop products and services whilst opening up job opportunities for promising graduates.

How working with an innovative SME can help you.

PUTTING RESEARCH INTO PRACTISE

GRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES

RECOGNITION FOR UNIVERSITIES

TENDER OPPORTUNITIES

Knowledge Exchange Collaborations

Blum Health Limited

Bromley Emergency Training and Research Ltd (BETAR Ltd)

Ionech Limited

Mykor Ltd

We provide businesses with flexible opportunities for innovation.

Linguisticator - Munx VR

Gosling PSL Holding Ltd

Texcel

Burden & Burden

Our Partners