DTI Technology Programme and
e-Science
Anne Trefethen
Deputy Director,
e-Science Core Programme
e-Science Centres
¾ Act as information resource
¾ Each Centre given £1m for
industrially based projects
¾ Each provide resource for UK
Grid
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Newcastle
Belfast
DL
Manchester
Cambridge
Oxford
Cardiff
RAL
London
Southampton
Industry Projects
• DTI investment of £11m
• Resulted in
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49 projects
83 collaborating groups
61 different companies involved
Over £14m industrial investment
37 SMEs
3 Industry collaborators provided more than £1m
Range of disciplines (IT, Engineering, Pharma,
Environmental etc)
– New sectors engaged (broadcasting, defence,
banking etc)
A few Examples …
G-Civil
Mission:
“To build a prototype
system
responsible
for
the
Mott MacDonald
collection, distribution and
Arcadis Geraghty
visualisation of data
Miller International
collected
from
civil
W H White Plc
engineering sites or from
WJ Groundwater Ltd
infrastructure monitoring
schemes”
G-Civil
• Resulted in web tool for data collection
and visualisation
• Is being used by monitoring point.com
• Offered as and additional extra to their
products
• Publicised in “Ground Engineering”
The GridCast Project
Grid based Broadcast Infrastructures
ƒ To develop a baseline media grid to support a broadcaster
ƒ Manage distributed collections of stored media
ƒ Prototype security and access mechanisms
ƒ Integrate processing and technical resources
ƒ Integrate with media standards and hardware
ƒ To analyse Quality of Service issues
ƒ Analyse remote content distribution infrastructures
ƒ Analyse remote service provision
ƒ To analyse reactivity, reliability and resilience issues in a gridbased broadcast infrastructure
The GridCast Project
• Now largely complete
• Schedules can be compiled and material
automatically transferred using in “trial”
form.
• Just missed funding in Technology
Programme call 2, have proceeded to full
bid in call 3
• BBC continue to work and develop
services
Telemedicine for MDT
Meetings in Cancer
• Cancer Centre
–Addenbrooke’s
(Papworth)
• Cancer Units
–Bedford
–Peterborough
–West Suffolk
–Harlow
–Hinchingbrooke
–King’s Lynn
Radiology, Cambridge, UK
Telemedicine
• Well supported by clinicians, has made a
change in work practices
• Extended beyond original remit into other
clinical areas
• NHS invested in project
• A clear winner for take up….
A Market for Computational Services
Develop mechanisms
• price quotation,
• negotiation,
• accounting,
• payment
to support paid-for Grid services
(now Web Services)
Deploy and test these
mechanisms in several realworld computing markets
GreenGrid
Negotiation Use and Payment
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Register with
Payment Service
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Discover a
negotiable service
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Negotiate for use of
the service and agree
on terms
•
Use the service.
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The service records
usage, collects
payment and returns
the results.
Users can obtain a real-time account statement via the Payment Service web interface
Computational Markets
• Another 9 months to go
• Have integrated pay-as-you go into
services
• Exploitation through industrial partners
(e.g NAG provided mathematical services
running on utility hardware on pay-as-you
go basis)
• Exploitation through national facilities…
DTI Technology Programme
DTI Programmes before the Review
UK and EU
TT clubs &
networks
Faradays
RTOs
Industry
Forums
EUREKA
IUKE visits
Staff moves
and secondments
partnering
university
alumni
networks
SMART
Manuf’g
Advisory
Service
Patent Office
supply
chains
DDA and
govt research
labs
nearness to market
LINK
collaborative
R&D
Design Council
TCS and
STEP
learned
societies
geographical
clusters
Living Innovation
And Scoreboards
ITS
web based
networking
Business Links
CONNECT
Standards
Trade
Codes of practice
Associations
NMS, HSE
Technology
DTI sectoral TT schemes The media
brokers
near
precompetitive
research
low
far
specificity to company or product
high
Technology Programme after the Review
IDENTIFICATION OF TECHNOLOGY PRIORITIES
Technology Strategy
and Assessment Unit
NETWORKS
inform
decision
making
TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY BOARD
STRATEGIC THEMES
Technological strategic focus for each theme
Funding Mechanisms
1. Knowledge Transfer Networks
2. Collaborative Research and Development
CUSTOMERS
CUSTOMERS
DELIVERY
through working with a
variety of channels
Technology Programme
¾ £370m over six Competitions,
¾ Two stage - open and very competitive,
¾ Each call around 9 Technology Priority
Areas,
¾Two instruments
¾Collaborative R & D,
¾ KTNs
Strategic Key Themes
1. Healthcare in an Ageing Society
2. A more Secure Environment
3. An Intelligent, Connected World
4. Sustainable Production and Consumption
5. Environmentally friendly Transport Systems
6. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Supply
7. The Modern Built Environment
Identifying Strategic Priorities:
Criteria
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Business Exploitation
Cross Sectoral Applications
Strength of UK SET Knowledge Base
Economic, Social, Quality of life, Environmental
Benefits
¾ Cross-government Collaboration (e.g. healthcare,
energy)
¾ Spill-over Benefits, Failure of Market
¾ Scope of Effectiveness for Government Intervention
Technology Programme - Objectives
Succeeding through Innovation
Stimulate R&D - between UK-based firms,
- between UK-based firms and the science base.
So as to increase:
¾ number of collaborations and business investment in R&D,
¾ awareness of benefit of R&D,
¾ dissemination of R&D outputs,
¾ high value-added wealth creation from new and improved
products and services.
Collaborative Research & Development
Objective;
“to improve the UK’s innovation performance
by increasing the breadth and depth of
collaborative research and development
between the UK science, engineering and
technology base and UK based businesses.”
Collaborative Research & Development
Grant-based products - from three categories
each with two types:
¾ Basic Research - Far from market projects,
¾ Applied Research - Middle market projects,
¾ Exploitation Development - Nearer to market
projects.
All involving 2+ collaborators:¾ Science to Business – S2B
¾ Business to Business – B2B
Funding for Collaborative R & D
¾ 75% for Basic Research projects,
¾ 50% for Applied Research projects,
¾ 25% for near market or Exploitation projects.
¾ Business to Business projects (50%, 40%, 25%),
And:¾ Typical projects £2m - £5m but no minimums,
¾ Attractive to have by-in from other Stakeholders,
¾ Duration - 6 months to 5 years,
¾ Can be used to fund EUREKA projects,
¾ All with consideration to state aid rules.
Technology Priorities for the April 2004 Call
¾ Bio-processing,
¾ Advanced (Composite) Materials and Structures,
¾ Inter-Enterprise Computing,
¾ Sensors and Control Systems,
¾ Renewable Energy Technologies,
¾ Electronics and Displays Technologies,
¾ Technologies for Environmentally Friendly
Transport.
Timetable - November 2004 Competition
29 Nov
Call Opens
31 Jan
Pre Reg
7 Feb
Call closes
10 weeks Outline
Open
1 Dec
1 Jan
1 Feb
4 weeks
Assess
1 Mar
7 March
End-assess
3 May
Close Full
8 weeks Full Open
1 Apr
1 May
27 June
End-assess
8 weeks Full
Assess
1 June
1 July
Initial outcome of the April 04 Call (C R&D)
Technology Number Number Number
Priority
@Outline @Full recomd
props
EFT
65
26
12
IE Computing
63
15
7
Elect&Displays
27
14
8
Bio-Processes
13
8
2
Materials
50
20
12
Sensors
113
21
12
Energy
69
26
17
Total
400
130
70
Project
Costs
£m
34.9
19.8
8.4
5.1
12.1
13.0
24.7
118
Grant
Sought
£m
16.7
10.1
4.0
4.0
5.5
6.4
9.3
56
Initial outcome of the April 04 Competition
April 2004 Competition Full Stage technical Assessment – outcome:¾ 400 Applications/Proposals,
¾ 130 taken to full stage,
¾ 70 are recommended for negotiation towards support.
Comprises:¾ 425 bids from 304 separate organisations,
¾ 36 separate HEIs,
¾ 6 Government Departments or Agencies and
¾ 262 separate private sector organisations.
Successes in Technology Programme
• e-Science applications fell into IEC part of the
programme.
• Following universities that host e-Science centres
are involved in the IEC successful projects
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Southampton
Cambridge
Oxford
Newcastle
UCL
Reading
Cardiff
Belfast
White Rose (York, Leeds, Sheffield)
Edinburgh
IEC Projects
Integrated Products and Services (IPAS)
Project lead: Rolls-Royce plc
Total project size: £2.5m (subject to contract)
A Generic Infrastructure for Medical Informatics (GIMI)
Project lead: Oxford University
Total project size: £3.5M (subject to contract)
Large scale computer simulation of physical properties of materials
Project lead: Accelrys
Total project size: £1.5M (subject to contract)
Applying Web Services to environmental forecast information in priority case
studies
Project lead: Met Office
Total project size: £2.2M (subject to contract)
Healthcare@Home: Patient-Centred Grid based e-Healthcare
Project lead: IBM
Total project size: £1.3M (subject to contract)
CRISP ( Commercial R3 IEC Service Provision)
Project lead: BT
Total project size: £3.0M (subject to contract)
BROADEN
Project lead: Rolls-Royce plc
Total project size: £3.98M (subject to contract)
+ 2 Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTN) – IECNet, and GridUK
November Competition Priorities Areas
¾ Design, Modelling and Simulation,
¾ Pervasive Computing & Networks and Sensors,
¾ Nano-technology,
¾ Imaging Technologies,
¾ “Smart” Materials,
¾ Waste Management and Minimisation,
¾ Opto-electonics & Disruptive Electronics,
¾ Bio-Industries,
¾ Renewable Energy.
Results from Nov Call
Technology
Proposals
for DTI
funding
Proposals for joint
funding with Research
Councils
Design, Modelling and
Simulation
223
47
Opto-electronics and
Disruptive Electronics
53
12
Bio Based Industrial Products
51
8
Energy Technologies
127
20
Imaging Technologies
87
26
Pervasive Computing, incl
Networks and Sensors
152
30
Smart Materials
56
11
Waste Management
130
12
Micro & Nano technology
87
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Ineligible (Blank) (Not Nano)
9
-
TOTAL
975
166