By providing access to academic experts in a wide range of disciplines, we connect businesses with expert knowledge and cutting edge research from across the globe.

KnowledgeEast’s support network will allow you to access specialist knowledge and technical expertise. This includes customised problem-solving advice from leading university experts and researchers.

We provide collaborative R&D by enabling organisations to access government grants for new product and process developments, and by using academic institutions as sub-contractors. We also deliver contract R&D by engaging university research teams and using technical facilities for outsourcing.

For example, the government part-funds Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, which team businesses with university experts and graduates to collaborate on projects of strategic importance (lasting from one to three years), whilst student projects consist of short assignments carried out by Masters students as part of their dissertations, and result in a report being produced on any chosen aspect of your business.

We facilitate commercialisation by offering advice on research funding, grant applications, management of intellectual property and licensing of new technologies. We also create joint ventures and alliances by opening up new markets that use academic institutions as business partners.

We help businesses access government grants for new product and process developments, with universities acting as sub-contractors, in order to deliver collaborative R&D.

To foster professional social networks, we deliver a range of networking events, targeting single interest areas as well as catering for a wide section of the marketplace.