Design Centre for the North Knowledge Transfer Network

1. Design Centre for the North Knowledge Transfer Network Gordon Ollivere Chief Executive, RTC North Michael Dowson Director Design Network North Terry McStea Technology Foresight Specialist Sylvia Veenhoff Technology Foresight Specialist RUnUP Conference Monday 9th February 2009

2. Contracting Partners A unique alliance between two intermediaries with effective links into industry & academia RTC combines effective management of public projects with high penetration of industry. KH provides managed access to complex HE skills and coordinates inter-university activity 1) 2) 3) RTC / KH UNIVERSITIES CfDR at Northumbria - Leading Design School with international reputation for over 50 years DLab at Teesside - highly innovative R&D resource for product and service innovation RCID at Newcastle - Multidisciplinary consultancy focused on prototyping for engineering firms 1) 2) 3)

3. Design Centre for the North Knowledge Transfer Network Executive Steering Board Industrial Chairman Universities of Newcastle, Northumbria, Teesside Project partners Knowledge House (HEI broker) RTC North(Accountable body) KTN Hub Core team of full-time design experts Supplier Forum Interface with Academia Business Forum Interface withIndustry University Specialists Opportunities 5-10 design projects pa in key strategic areas economy Industry Specialists MAPPING MAPPING NUDIL NEPA +DD Univ. Projects Industry Projects

4. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The Project Aimwill beto establish a regional Knowledge Transfer Network for Design to promote the North East nationally and internationally as a centre for world class design capability. Specific objectives will include …. • Recruitment of highly qualified internal core team • Engagement of external networks of design experts • Selection and delivery of key strategic design projects • Efficient project management and monitoring functions • Recommendations for long term sustainability

5. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The Real Aim ? Specific objectives will include …. To increase the contribution of design (in all its forms) to the to the wealth of the region • ? • ? • ? • ? • ?

6. Our methodology 6 Months 24 Months 6 Months Task 1: “Set-up and resource development” – Establishing highly visible access to the Design KTN • Task 2: “Animation and Project Definition” • Strategic road-mapping • Developing collaborative potential • Selection of core projects Task 3: “Core Design Products” - Delivery of exemplar projects - Exploitation of project results (IPR) - Evaluation of project outputs Task 4: “Strengthening Performance” - Dissemination of best practice - Raising organisational capacity - Developing skills and knowledge - Improving local support structures Foresight Actions Long Term Strategy Task 5: “Programme Marketing and Management” - PR and Marketing - Promoting a regional design culture - Project Management and Performance Monitoring

7. Innovation Connectors • 1. Technology partnerships to concentrate facilities and encourage innovation between government, universities and industry … • - Hubs based in deprived areasto create deep local impact • 2. Regeneration themes based on: • - traditional industrial strengths such as energy and chemicals • - new industrial specialisations such as bioscience and software • - softer enabling skills such as design to add value • A strategy and implementation policy to produce dramatic change in the region within a generation.

8. North East England Innovation Connectors Energy Centres Newcastle Science City Design Centre for the North (RTC) Sunderland Software City Netpark at Sedgefield Energy Centres Teesside Digital City Wilton

9. Wilton Centre (Chemicals) • The most significant new materials related research, development and innovation cluster in Europe • In the last five years, the decline of R&D previously associated with the chemicals industry on Teesside has been reversed and Wilton is now the largest private research concentration in Europe • Major investments currently being implemented include: - The National Industrial Technology Facility - The hub of the National Nano-Particulates Network Regeneration of an industrial sector that has existed in the region but which had gone into decline

10. Teesside Digital City • Partnership between the University of Teesside and individual businesses • Developing research, facilities and business in respect of new media, particularly games and animated film • Developing new facilities for business in central Middlesbrough • Furthering the development of the innovative cluster of related businesses already established in this area Establishment of a new industry based on excellence within the universities

11. Design Centre North • Recruitment of highly qualified internal core team • Engagement of external networks of design experts • Selection and delivery of key strategic design projects • International collaboration and networking • Foresight and capacity building for long term sustainability Specialist building to be completed in 2010. RTC North contracted to establish a Design Knowledge Transfer Network to promote the region as a centre for world class design. Objectives include …. Development of softer enabling skills to move North East business and industry up the value chain

12. Design Centre for the North

13. DCN Floor-plan

15. A Strategy for Gateshead Building on Infrastructure Working with Business Popularity of Enterprise Mass participation in Wealth Creation New Environment for Innovation Confidence in the future

16. The Wider National Agenda