Resources

Your innovation toolkit

We've created easy-to-read guides to help make it easier for our staff and students to innovate. Whether you’re looking to collaborate with business, apply for funding, disclose an invention, protect something valuable, or form your own company, these guides are designed to provide useful hints and tips and point you towards further support within the University.

Innovation guides

Inventor Guide

Discover how the University has teams of people, resources, funding and policies that can help you become a successful innovator.

Collaborator Guide

This is a simple guide designed to help our staff start their first collaboration with a business partner.

Collaborating with SMEs guide

An easy-to-read guide to help you identify and engage with small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)

Innovate UK Grant Application Guide

An easy-to-read guide to help you improve your chances of winning Innovative UK funding applications.

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project Application Guide

Helping academics identify, scope, and apply for a KTP project, with useful pointers for business partners.

Student IP Protocol

An easy-to-read guide for our undergraduate and postgraduate students to help understand your IP rights, and how sometimes the University manages those rights on your behalf.