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Grand Challenge

Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge

AIM Research is also working a major £3.5m programme funded by the EPSRC in a scheme entitled, 'Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge'.

Our research involves 5 major universities (Cambridge, Cranfield, Imperial College, Liverpool and Loughborough) and the Advanced Institute of Management Research - is trying to move our understanding beyond superstition and alchemy and towards developing a clearer understanding of the knowledge-to-innovation (KTI) system and how it can most effectively operate.

AIM is also responsible for co-ordinating the engagement and dissemination activities for the projects within the ESRC's targeted initiative on Innovation.

The EPSRC's Innovation Manufacturing programme (IMP) promotes and supports high quality research and masters level postgraduate training in manufacturing engineering, so as to help improve the performance of the UK manufacturing sector and increase its contribution to wealth creation (View Website).

The IMP has funded four 'Grand Challenge' consortia to tackle major issues in manufacturing, building on the work of the 17 Innovative Manufacturing Research Centres (IMRCs). Total funding for the consortia comes to £14 million and each consortium involves several IMRCs, as well as other leading researchers and industrial collaborators.

AIM is delighted to be involved in two of the consortia: The Immortal Information and Knowledge, and The Innovation and Productivity both of which also receive support from the ESRC.

Immortal Information and Knowledge is to create a new kind of network-enabled information and knowledge environment. Dispersed, multidisciplinary operational teams will use sustainable knowledge, management systems to execute effective, timely decisions within an evolving engineering lifecycle.

The Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge - Overview seeks to develop existing knowledge about innovation, engineering and productivity to better understand how these connect together to improve productivity and how ideas flow from the science base to the market place.


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