Our staff and students work with industry, professions, and the community through live projects in companies and in Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. We also have a range of specialist services tailored to industry needs, staffed by experts in their fields. Do contact us directly so that we can match your needs with our expertise.
Design Knowledge Network exists to help small and medium sized enterprises in the West Midlands. It is tasked with providing qualifying companies with free consultancy and support services in order to improve design, product development and marketing. This can help to increase company performance and profitability.
www.designknowledgenetwork.co.uk
The Jewellery Industry Innovation Centre (JIIC) is based in the heart of Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter and was established primarily, but not exclusively, to assist Jewellery firms throughout the U.K. to assess and evaluate potential new technology applications and equipment. The J.I.I.C. also facilitates technology transfer and provides technical support and training in the use and application of these new technologies and equipment.
www.jewellery-innovation.co.uk
The question being asked is "Can businesses really afford not to adopt Open Source software within their IT infrastructure"?
Established as the focal point for Open Source software and solutions in the West Midlands and the UK, OpenAdvantage aim to promote, encourage and assist the awareness, understanding and use of Open Source technologies together with developing a regional Open Source support infrastructure and community of developers and users.
User-Lab is a non-profit making organisation that was developed through Higher Education Funding Council for England capital funding. The lab was founded in 2000 and undertakes academic and commercial research for which it has developed a reputation of international repute.
Read more about user-lab services
We host a large number of design-related Partnerships. KTP is a government funded scheme that helps UK companies take advantage of the expertise available within universities. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships offer an ideal way of sharing design expertise between the university and companies.
A KTP programme is a partnership, the company identifies the problem for which they do not have the resource or technical capability to solve alone. The University provides access to skills, knowledge and technology and the experience of applying them in a practical environment.
We have extensive experience in the previously run Teaching Company Scheme programme. We have helped companies resolve a wide range of problems from the creation of new products to innovation in the production cycle.
We welcome all enquiries relating to design and media development.
Shane Walker
Director of KTP Programmes, BIAD
email: shane.walker@bcu.ac.uk
Tel: 0121 331 7862
Fax: 0121 331 7867
Industry Related Research & Development - We sponsor a large and growing number of projects with strong research elements.
Research: BIADResearch@bcu.ac.uk
BIAD, Birmingham City University, Gosta Green, Birmingham B4 7DX