2011 Fast Forward Competition

Intellectual Property Minister Baroness Wilcox has launched the 2011 Fast Forward Competition (Jan 7th) that aims to support innovative schemes to improve the way publiclyfunded institutions conduct research and manage their intellectual property rights. In support of the initiative the Intellectual Property Office is putting in £500,000 prize money to help ensure the maximum possible benefit is created from taxpayer-funded research.

Open to universities and other publicly funded research establishments such as The British Library, Ordnance Survey, and the Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, competition entries could include innovative partnerships with businesses, new ways of groups of universities sharing facilities or fresh methods for turning cutting-edge research into economic benefits.