Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

Increase your annual profits...sound good?

Then you need to be in the know with our Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)

Case studies
Professor Graham Henderson, Vice-Chancellor visits Wellstream with Dr Ahmed Abbas

Knowledge is power Knowledge Transfer Partnerships can increase annual profits for businesses and offer graduates the first step on the career ladder. (3mins)


Knowledge transfer

Collaborative partnerships

Completed KTPs

Contact us
T: 01642 384407 or email ktp@tees.ac.uk.

For your business a KTP can:

  • increase your competitiveness
  • increase your productivity
  • increase your annual profit
  • help you make better use of knowledge, technology and skills.

If you need to make a strategic change, develop a new range of products, enter a new market or develop new technologies, business systems or processes a KTP or Collaborative Innovation Partnership (CIP) could be exactly what you need.

Business performance outputs vary but on average, the business benefits expected from a single KTP are:

  • an increase of over £220,000 in annual profits before tax
  • the creation of three new jobs
  • an increase in the skills of existing staff

Partnerships are between the University, a graduate – and you. You get a highly qualified graduate working for you plus a team of specialist experts – who will transfer their technical expertise, research and innovation to you through the graduate.

KTPs are flexible in length from 18 months to three years according to your needs. CIPs (currently only available in the One North East region) are shorter interventions varying between six and nine months.

Companies we've also worked with include: Stockton-on-Tees Teaching Primary Care Trust; Fin Machine Company Ltd; Solocup (Europe) Ltd; Vale of Mowbray Ltd; Stanley Vickers Ltd; Advanced Electronics Ltd; Deepdale Solutions Ltd; Romag Holdings plc; Third Film Productions Ltd; Strange Agency Ltd; FNA Films Ltd; High Integrity Products Ltd; International Cuisine Ltd; Rayovac Ltd; Time Out of the Box; CMR UK Ltd; Implants International Ltd; Northumbrian Water; Twisted Studio.