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This guide is based on the results of a year-long project conducted by the CBI's Inter-Company Academic Relations Group (ICARG). The guide sets out some general principles, best practice tips and details of specific schemes and initiatives that other members may find useful. The guide is not meant to be exhaustive, but it focuses on areas that ICARG members themselves have found to be of greatest value, supported by commentary, quotes and useful web links. We welcome comments from CBI Members, both on the contents of this guide and on other aspects of issues involved.

9 July 2010, HEFCE welcomes today's announcement by David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science, which confirms the timetable for the Research Excellence Framework (REF). The assessment phase of the REF will take place during 2014 to inform funding from 2015-16. The REF is the new system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions.

This will provide the UK higher education funding bodies, working with the sector, sufficient time to develop a robust method for assessing the impact of research, as part of the REF.

The report shows an encouraging picture of activity during the economic downturn with UK HEIs providing nearly £3 Billion in services to business and the community.UK HEIs are provided with two copies of the ‘Resources’ CD-ROM.

To view the report, click here

Industrial CASE PhDs provide research training in an area of relevance to an industrial partner and are an excellent means of knowledge exchange between the academic and commercial worlds.

Full details of the competition are on the BBSRC website at: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/training/industrial-case.aspx

A new international alliance for technology transfer professionals called ATTP launched on May 27, 2010, at the 10th annual conference of the Association of European Science & Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP) in Paris, France.

A wearable radar-on-a-chip tracking device with many safety applications, solar-powered equipment to generate clean water and electricity, and a self-sterilising catheter are among a raft of innovations expected to emerge from a new initiative using designers to help speed up the commercialisation of new technologies from some of the UK’s leading universities.