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- Knowledge Transfer Partnership for RPD
- Date Published 01/10/2006
The journal is a significant source of information and expertise for both industry and Universities, with an editorial board drawn from Cambridge, Loughborough, Liverpool and Nottingham Universities with industry representatives.
This paper reports on a design support project in a small UK-based jewellery company. The company participated in a programme sponsored by the UK government to encourage knowledge transfer by collaboration between Universities and businesses to stimulate innovation and thus contribute to competitiveness. The knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) is a UK government subsidised graduate employment scheme, where Associates gain experience of working in a commercial environment while gaining a work-based learning contract.
This KTP case study focuses on a highly design-oriented project. The research demonstrates that the associate was able, during the course of the partnership, to introduce a new service to the company, namely bespoke design utilising CAD/CAM, new product design processes and strategies to the company. The programme directly contributed to improving the economic performance and the scheme also generated other intangible benefits relating to design activities for the company.
This article is particularly significant as it illustrates how the project proved to be a highly cost-effective form of introducing a new bespoke design service within a company in the jewellery sector leading to both financial and substantial non-financial benefits.
Details
Location: Time Compression Technology
Volume No.: 14
Issue 5 Pagination: 24-28
Type: Journal article
ISBN / ISSN: 1751-0333
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