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For us it's about true collaboration and finding people that want to go on this journey with us too and build capacity in our organisation long term. I think KTP works for us because of flexibility and someone who is able to benefit from the resources of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University and gain a clearer balanced understanding of the commercial side of the business but also the research and development side of business. Developing an AI-powered mobile application, we need some sort of expertise. They can guide us in what area the AI can help us. It really brings a strong focus on delivering an output so that the work is really targeted and ensuring that we deliver something that has material value to the council in its work.

Many knowledge transfer partnerships are quite radical projects, quite innovative that take the company a big step forward. At Rethink we specialise in productivity. Anywhere where there's somebody doing something, we can measure that process and we can help drive efficiencies. As a business we have lots of data. We knew we needed to get it in one place and unlock the value. The Knowledge Transfer Partnership Scheme is intended to be a graduate scheme and it's very prestigious as well. We do tend to attract really good people for the position of associate. The University do all the searching for candidates. We got a really good calibre of people that understood what we were looking for. I'm really passionate about analysing data and getting more insights out of the data. My PhD was on data science and I like the overall collaborative nature of this project. Working with the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú with the team, it was a great fit from day one. Times things just click. From marketing support to technical development the University's been there to help our associate and us if we have any questions at all. Its quite incredible. If there is something you are interested in being able to achieve but you would struggle to afford it then there is plenty of help. I try to maximise the benefits to each of the partners so I try to anticipate things that might go wrong and reduce risks. There's a whole system to support you for the success of this KTB project. We're a 100% remote company. Rushan fitted into the team perfectly. Before if you can imagine we were trawling through 7 million data points to try and build benchmarking points, now it happens automatically. Its enabled us to develop a technology that we maybe never would have developed at all. After my KTP, I've joined full-time at ReThink and we're building some really cool data products. We've stayed in touch with the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú and we've just been successful in our second KTP. So we're about to start the process again for a different hypothesis and a different set of work on data. The KTP is a very cost-effective way of getting research done in the University into a commercial business in a very short space of time to really upscale where we are. Every day is more than just a normal day in the office. Subsea Craft is an advanced maritime technology company. We have Victor, our main craft. We identified that we might be able to look at the data coming from all of the sensors on board and be able work out when something is going to break, before it breaks, that will save time, money, and potentially operators lives. So we needed knowledge about predictive maintenance and machine learning. The university does have a lot of experience about the artificial intelligence logarithms. And KTP does provide a brilliant chance to bridge the gap between the university's research and industry. It is very beneficial and it feeds back into our teaching and our research as well. In this case, there was a need for a software engineer. I did my Masters in Applied AI and Data Science. As a KTP Associate, I got the opportunity to work along with such a cutting-edge company and knowledgeable software engineers who come with a lot of experience. We have a monthly meeting between the university and the company. We also have a weekly based meeting together with the KTP associate. And then the KTP advisor from Innovate UK will also provide some guidance. I have supported over 200 projects. I work with the partners right through to execution and delivery. This KTP project has been very successful, great progress has been made and algorithms are being developed. It has enabled us to tap into a part of the market where we are able to push that price point of that maintenance programme way, way down. We would love to see a collaboration with the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú continuing on beyond the end of the KTP.

So innovation is a team event. We don't innovate alone. The best way to do this is with partnerships. And we bring together those social connections in the academic community and the business community. We work collaborative projects around the world, so that experience can be gained by industries by working. With the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú. Whether you talk about businesses, whether you talk about humanities, social sciences, engineering, we do some fantastic work in the area of space, in the area of defence, in the area of marine biology. We tend to have a team-based approach to co-develop the project, so it's not a templated approach. We don't see KTPs as a product that we sell. It's really important to reach out and see that if we can work, there's funding available if we could help you to find that funding and put that team together to help you solve your problems. The main advice I'd give people is just go for it. Get in touch with people at the university. The KTP team are fantastic. Come along, talk to them, find out what they can offer and go from there. There's bound to be an opportunity that will work for your organisation and the potential is just huge. You won't know until you give it a try. And get some key knowledge, some experience, the access to the fantastic equipment that they have for testing. It's been a great opportunity and we definitely encourage it.