2013 Fast Forward Competition
£750,000 Prize for turning innovative ideas into reality
Ten
of the UK's most innovative universities and two exceptional National Health
Service trust projects were awarded a total of £750,000 for their ground breaking projects to turn ideas
into business reality today. These projects will help to create new products and services for businesses, society and the wider economy.
A total of 12 entries from the Fast Forward Competition have been awarded prizes of between £12,000 and £90,000. They come from areas such as healthcare, design, clean technology construction and social enterprise, engineering and aerospace.
The competition is designed to encourage universities and public sector research establishments to collaborate on innovative approaches to knowledge transfer. This will also help develop university research to real world products and services.
One of the competition winners is the ITALIA project from Buckinghamshire New University. The project has been awarded £70,000 to bring together a variety of medical experts, university academics and Buckinghamshire County Council to develop new telehealth solutions which will connect patients and doctors through telecommunications technologies.
Lord Younger Minister for Intellectual Property said:
"I am pleased to recognise and reward such a diverse range of projects. The winning projects have taken the best of UK research and academic knowhow and collaborated with innovative industries to capitalise on each others' strengths."
"It is vital for universities and industry to find new ways of working with different partners in new areas and supporting growth. These projects embody that mindset and I congratulate them on their success."
The competition was open to UK universities and Public Sector Research Establishments (PSRE) and saw over 77 entries. This is the third year of the Fast Forward competition which has provided £2 million in funding to 35 projects since the competition started in 2010.
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Fast Forward Competition Ceremony 
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The competition is now closed for entries.
2013 Fast Forward Competition
Entries
A
total of 77 entries (244Kb) were received for the 2013 Fast Forward competition,
of which 12 were successful
Winners
- City
University London
"Start – Ed" - £12,500 - University
of Essex
"LocalisE - Promoting business growth in North Essex via the Enterprise Agency network" - £16,200 - University of Salford
"Graduate Innovation Office" - £58,000 - Anglia Ruskin University
"Wiki for IP and Spill over through positive externalities and disseminating information asymmetry" - £60,200 - University of Southampton
"Meet the Primes" - £64,750 - Cardiff University (SARTRE)
"Developing an open innovation platform for sourcing solutions to unmet clinical needs" - ӣ65,000 - Buckinghamshire
New University
"Innovative Telehealth & Assisted Living Ideas and Applications (ITALIA)" - £69,692 - NHS Innovations South East
"Accelerated commercialisation of non-patent Intellectual Property associated with healthcare apps" - £70,000 - Princess
Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
"Identifying clinical unmet needs for accelerated innovation in medical technology" - £73,700 - Durham University
"Creating confidence in the crowd: Copper-bottoming the Innovation Commons" - £79,500 - University
of the West of England
"Develop and Test an IP Diagnostic Tool for 'Build to Print' SME's" - £85,000 - Liverpool John Moores University
"Angel Accelerator" £89,581
Full descriptions of all
winning entries are available in our 2013 winning entries (72Kb) information booklet.
2012 Fast Forward Competition
Entries
A
total of 53 entries (286Kb) were received for the 2012 Fast Forward competition, of which
13 were successful.
Winners
- University
of the West of England in collaboration with University of York, University of Sheffield, and Southampton
Solent University
"Knowing and Growing 2012 (K&G)" - £90,000
Case study(146Kb) - Swansea
University
"IP Forecast: an early stage value assessment methodology for intellectual assets tailored for the UK research context" - £80,000
Case study(204Kb) - University
of Exeter
"Growing innovation management capability to sustain Knowledge Exchange"- £80,000
Case study(248Kb) - University
of the West of England
"Bloodhound @ University" - £80,000
Case study(124Kb) - Sheffield
Hallam University
"Early Bird IP" - £77,000
Case study(258Kb) - University
of Portsmouth in collaboration with University of Southampton, and University of Bournemouth
"Creation of a unique cross-organisational innovation and knowledge exchange campus with the purpose of identifying, enhancing and supporting the exploitation of IP within SMEs in the region" - £75,000
Case study(1.46Mb) - University
College London
"From ideas to social enterprise: the integration of social enterprise in university technology transfer" - £65,000
Case study(196Kb) - Papworth
Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust
"Clinical expertise database for increased knowledge transfer in the NHS" - £52,000
Case study(287Kb) - STFC
Innovations Ltd
"Using GEMS to discover and unlock IP value from academic research"- £48,000
Case study(219Kb) - University
of Abertay Dundee
"The Dare Repository" - £43,000
Case study(188Kb) - University
of Portsmouth
"IPASS (Intellectual Property Advice and Support Service)" - £30,000
Case study(166Kb) - University
of Leicester
"Student Ventures: a bridge to more effective Knowledge Transfer"- £18,000
Case study(258Kb) - University
of Bradford
"The sharing of technology transfer protocols relating to the research exemptions across a range of regional public sector institutions" - £11,000
Case study(188Kb)
Full
descriptions of all winning entries are available in our 2012 winning entries (39Kb) information
booklet.
2011 Fast Forward Competition
Entries
A
total of 70 entries (154Kb) were received for the 2011 Fast Forward competition, of which
10 were successful.
Winners
- University
of Nottingham in partnership with the Design Council
"Design for Technology Transfer"- £100,000
Case study(1.21Mb) - London
College of Fashion
"Protecting the Fashion Economy" - £80,000
Case study(216Kb) - University
of Glasgow in partnership with King’s College London and the University of Bristol
"Easy Access Innovation Partnership" - £80,000
Case study(325Kb) - MRC Harwell
"Pump-priming the Harwell Oxford knowledge transfer ecosystem" - £75,000
Case study(271Kb) - University
of Surrey
"South East IP Bank (SEIPB)" - £75,000
Case study(315Kb) - University
College London
"E-Lucid" - £60,000
Case study(294Kb) - Aberystwyth
University
"A model for the rapid commercialisation of university software: Effective use of copyright and trade marks" - £30,000
Case study(1.56Mb) - Social
Innovation in Business Partnership (SIIB), University of the West of England
"Innovating in social enterprises to benefit business and community" - £25,000
Case study(228Kb) - Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS), University
of Oxford
"Hagen" - £20,000
Case study(256Kb) - Leicester
BioMed Collaboration, University of Leicester
"Driving Innovation from Bench to the Bedside" - £17,000
Case study(206Kb)
Full
descriptions of all winning entries are available in our 2011 winning entries (38Kb) information
booklet.