CIKC Present and Future

Chris Rider Director

18th December 2012

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What is an IKC?

A vehicle to accelerate and promote

commercial exploitation of an emerging

research and technology field in partnership

with industry

Located in a university

Integrates

Skilled professionals from both academia

and business

Defined technology scope

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Physics (Optoelectronics

Group)

Electrical Engineering

Institute for Manufacturing

Centre for Business Research

University Components of the Knowledge Centre

Technology UK Innovation

Policy

Roadmapping

Value Mapping

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CIKC Technology & Applications Scope

Electronic and photonic devices incorporating “new” materials

polymers, liquid crystals, metal oxides and nanostructures

Advanced manufacturing technologies

Low-temperature processing

Applications involving distributed electronics/photonics

Applications involving the use of liquid crystals as the active layer

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Why “large-area” electronics & photonics?

Large new market opportunities – all £multi-billion

Organic photovoltaics

Reflective displays

Smart packaging

Smart windows

Sensing systems

Optical interconnection and distribution

Digital phase-only holography

Transparent microelectronics

World-class UK science base

Opportunity to support the growth of a new UK industry

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CIKC Mission

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To facilitate, within our scope, the commercial exploitation

of early-stage university technology

Provision of

Scale-up infrastructure,

Business expertise and

Funding for technology development and demonstrator

fabrication in partnership with industry

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Specific challenges of our sector

Multiple technologies to be developed & co-optimised

New materials

Materials deposition

Patterning

Device architecture

Device fabrication processes

Testing

Bringing multiple component technologies together

Power, Sensor, Logic, Output

Few large companies in value chain, many SMEs

Scale up is complex and multi-staged

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Multi-step scale up of a large-area technology – e.g. PV

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Small scale: ~5 cm

Pilot scale: ~15 cm wide roll to roll

Production: >50 cm wide roll to roll

Science demo

Market – prototype & product Technology demo

Application demo

Lab scale: ~1 cm

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Why is CIKC needed?

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Universities

Lead commercialiser

Technology transfer cannot be achieved

- Acceptance of technical risk

- Assimilation capability

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Why is CIKC needed?

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Universities

Lead commercialiser

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CIKC

• Reduced technical risk to

industry

• Reduced risk to value chain

• Reduced early cost to SMEs

• Advantage of continuity

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Why is CIKC needed?

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Universities

Lead commercialiser

T2 T1 T3

• Reduced technical risk to industry

• Reduced risk to value chain

• Reduced early cost to SMEs

• Advantage of continuity HVM Catapult (CPI)

CIKC

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High-speed self-aligned printable

organic CMOS transistors

Printed organic photovoltaics

Transparent microelectronics

(metal oxides)

Phase-only holography using

LCoS for projection and telecoms

Large-area bi-stable reflective

colour displays on plastic

Polymer waveguides for optical

interconnect

CIKC Project Portfolio

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front view

6 Large technology platforms with multiple applications

• 19 small feasibility studies

• 25 Spin-off projects

• 46 Industrial partners involved, 72 including spin-off projects

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CIKC Training and Research Outputs

Training

Trained researchers involved in CIKC projects

• 17 PhD students

• 34 postdocs

• 7 MPhil students

215 students have attended entrepreneurship/business school training

• Ignite (development a business plan)

• MOTI (management of technology innovation – evening lecture course)

• TIM (Technology Innovation Management – short course)

• iTEAMS (business opportunity development – hands-on)

• IP Training

High quality research outputs

98 invited conference papers

52 refereed publications (>50% with industry authors)

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Leveraged Funding

EPSRC Grant

£6,810,754

CIKC,

£6,810,754

Industry Income,

£5,267,771

Venture Capital

raised,

£4,500,000

Other EPSRC

grants,

£2,938,191

TSB projects,

£1,815,667

EU projects,

£864,881

Other grant

income,

£561,250

Other RCs,

£2,800,002

Other income,

£74,668

Total income

£25,633,184

CIKC,

£8,349,908

Industry

Income,

£5,267,771

Other income,

£74,668

Other RCs,

£2,800,002 Other grant

income, £561,250

EU projects,

£15,410,423

TSB projects,

£8,031,571

Other EPSRC

grants,

£2,938,191

Venture

Capital

raised,

£4,500,000

Total Project size

(all partners)

£47,933,784

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CIKC Future – mission unchanged

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To facilitate, within our scope, the commercial exploitation

of early-stage university technology

Provision of

Scale-up infrastructure,

Business expertise and

Funding for technology development and demonstrator

fabrication in partnership with industry

Through

HEIF for annual small grant call

TSB and EU funded collaborative projects

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The CIKC Offering to Industry

CONNECT

Easy “front door” to access

• University of Cambridge OLAE technologies, know-how & IP

• Our industrial partner network

Access to our specialist equipment

Access to training in OLAE technology and entrepreneurship

COLLABORATE

Facilitation of Open Innovation projects

• Project definition & setup

• Project management

Consultancy and short projects with/for industry

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Today’s Programme

How 4 companies in our sector are addressing the application challenge

How 4 of the CIKC technology platforms are addressing new applications

How 2 of our small grant projects are identifying the first applications

How we’re connecting with the HVM Catapult Centre at CPI

A chance to connect need with capability

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New TSB rules make it easier to collaborate with CIKC

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