DTI Technology Programme and e-Science Anne Trefethen Deputy Director, e-Science Core Programme e-Science Centres Act as information resource Each Centre given £1m for industrially based projects 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 – – – – – – – 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 To develop a baseline media grid to support a broadcaster Manage distributed collections of stored media Prototype security and access mechanisms Integrate processing and technical resources Integrate with media standards and hardware To analyse Quality of Service issues Analyse remote content distribution infrastructures Analyse remote service provision 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 • Register with Payment Service • Discover a negotiable service • Negotiate for use of the service and agree on terms • Use the service. • 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 DELIVERY through working with a variety of channels Technology Programme £370m over six Competitions, Two stage - open and very competitive, Each call around 9 Technology Priority Areas, Two instruments Collaborative R & D, 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 Business Exploitation Cross Sectoral Applications Strength of UK SET Knowledge Base Economic, Social, Quality of life, Environmental Benefits Cross-government Collaboration (e.g. healthcare, energy) Spill-over Benefits, Failure of Market 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: number of collaborations and business investment in R&D, awareness of benefit of R&D, dissemination of R&D outputs, 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: Basic Research - Far from market projects, Applied Research - Middle market projects, Exploitation Development - Nearer to market projects. All involving 2+ collaborators: Science to Business – S2B Business to Business – B2B Funding for Collaborative R & D 75% for Basic Research projects, 50% for Applied Research projects, 25% for near market or Exploitation projects. Business to Business projects (50%, 40%, 25%), And: Typical projects £2m - £5m but no minimums, Attractive to have by-in from other Stakeholders, Duration - 6 months to 5 years, Can be used to fund EUREKA projects, All with consideration to state aid rules. Technology Priorities for the April 2004 Call Bio-processing, Advanced (Composite) Materials and Structures, Inter-Enterprise Computing, Sensors and Control Systems, Renewable Energy Technologies, Electronics and Displays Technologies, 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:- 400 Applications/Proposals, 130 taken to full stage, 70 are recommended for negotiation towards support. Comprises: 425 bids from 304 separate organisations, 36 separate HEIs, 6 Government Departments or Agencies and 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 • • • • • • • • • • 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