Funding to support industry engagement

Increasing capacity in academic departments

To increase our capacity in departments for working with business and industry, a variety of posts were made available to all three faculties, with potentially more to follow over the remaining duration of the programme.

Seven new academic professor roles have been recruited up to now.

Large-scale projects

The BIEI programme includes a new flexible fund, designed to accelerate ambitious business-focused projects and to test out new ways of working:

• Partnership acceleration and commercial engagement (PACE) funding

Small-scale projects

The University receives a range of funding to support Knowledge Exchange and Business Engagement activities. This includes Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) and Impact Accelerator Accounts (IAA). This funding is distributed through regular internal funding calls  (University of York log-in required).