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Knowledge Transfer Partnerships: business support

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships is a support programme that connects businesses with university and research expertise to deliver innovation projects, for businesses across the United Kingdom with a strategic innovation idea. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

Checked against the official page (growthhub.northeast-ca.gov.uk) on 1 Nov 2026.

Links businesses with universities and research organisations to deliver innovation projects led by graduates. A Management KTP works in the same way but focuses on human-centred and/or technology-enabled strategic change.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open

Not confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Not stated

How much

Not stated

Who can apply

Businesses with a strategic innovation idea can be connected with academic expertise through a KTP; the page links to eligibility criteria on a separate Innovate UK competition page.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Not stated

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How to apply

Contact one of Innovate UK KTN's Knowledge Transfer Advisers, who will assess the project; the text also says to visit the provider website for how to apply.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

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HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

Things we could not confirm

  • Funding amount, match funding and deadline not stated in the text.
  • Page last updated 21 August 2023; current availability not confirmed.
  • Page status 'open' is inferred from the page's 'Open' button; the text does not explicitly confirm applications are open.
  • Scheme is delivered by Innovate UK KTN and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships; its own rules may apply.

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (growthhub.northeast-ca.gov.uk) on 1 Nov 2026. Its details last changed on 1 Nov 2026. A person last checked it on 31 Oct 2026, so confirm the details with Knowledge Transfer Partnerships before you apply.

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