SUCCESS STORIES

We’ve helped create 300 deals a year between technology-intensive companies and a wide range of research partners, collaborations worth over £64m. Not surprisingly, we’ve got a lot of stories to tell. 

We’ve arranged our case studies according to the array of mechanisms we’ve used to save companies time and money, and to reduce their R&D risk, including:

• Networking events
• Technology matchmaking
• Linking to international R&D and business partners
• Connecting via LTN’s “Business Fellow” network of industry-savvy, top-level researchers
• Finding a UK research partner
• Sourcing funding bid partners via our team of technology consultants

... and more

You’ll find stories from companies including:

GSK, Yakult, Pfizer, Smiths Detection, EA Games, MAST Carbon, Atkins, Biotronics 3D, HFL, Philips, Eisai, and Opean Energy 

... and from universities including:

University College London, Imperial College London, QMUL, St. George’s and the Universities of Oxford, Cranfield, Brighton, Greenwhich, Nottingham, Reading, Southampton, Surrey, Sussex, and Westminster

We hope you enjoy our case studies, and if you’d like to be part of your own success story, email Tim at t.benzie@LTNetwork.org

Measuring Impact

In Spring 2010, we wanted to understand further what impact our business clients are looking for, and actually achieving, with our help. While our role is to help companies improve their R&D performance (typically by forming new collaborations), how do companies assess this?

We tested out a very simple questionnaire with companies from London and the South-East who we had helped in the previous six months and asked them to predict the commercial impact of LTN’s help. The results are impressive.

Forty-six companies reported that LTN’s assistance is anticipated to deliver a wide range on economic impacts including:

• increases in annual turnover of more than £16 million
• 55 new jobs created
• 33 jobs protected
• 55 new product lines launched, and
• securing external grants worth more than £2.7million