Knowledge Services

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As the UK moves from its traditional resource-based to a knowledge-based economy both government and industry are recognising knowledge and innovation as key factors in economic growth, social development, and job creation.

For research driven businesses, understanding the return on investment and scientific outputs is a key measure for determining the success of research. While financial measurement is an obvious and simple success factor, more businesses are looking to quantify success by more than just one metric. NPL is able to work with business to help address these more complex assessment matrices and ensure they are developed and delivered in a way that will give meaningful management information. This in turn will allow more sound decisions to be made on future programme and product investments.

While product innovation comes from within companies, the move to develop a more outward looking approach for getting the most out of innovation is becoming more commonplace. NPL can help develop a range of programmes to facilitate technology brokerage for your organisation to help not only get your ideas known by a wider audience, but give companies the chance to view and assess alternative technology driven organisations and products.

While continual innovation helps companies differentiate themselves in some very crowded market places, the management of the knowledge that got them in market leading positions is also a must. NPL's Knowledge Services team have many years of experience in managing knowledge across wide ranging technical applications with complex stakeholder groups. By working with NPL, you can benefit from our well tested processes to implement knowledge management systems that will ensure that developments in technology driven businesses will not be lost and maximise the retention of information internally.

NPL is working with business to increase knowledge transfer through combining our industry knowledge with world-leading scientific expertise.

For more information, please contact Pete Moores

Services

Network management - We help clients develop new products and processes by understanding knowledge gaps and then by identifying, implementing and managing the most suitable network building and open innovation tools. NPL currently manages airto, the Sensors and Instrumentation Knowledge Centre and ICT.
Research for innovation and impact - Different stakeholders value the various outcomes from innovation differently so there is no one-size-fits-all metric for demonstrating impact. NPL has developed a set of qualitative and quantitative methodologies that allow your company to focus resources on activities that make the biggest impact and give the confidence that you are getting value for money from your investment in research.
Technology brokerage - The more open approach to research that many companies have adopted to de-risk and accelerate innovate has increased the complexity of relationships both within and between research assets. NPL's systematic approach to stakeholder management means that we can broker relations between your company and others that can assist your research interests.
Knowledge management - Codifying existing knowledge is recognised by most businesses as an important aspect of corporate resilience. Accelerating the diffusion of know how and best practice at the boundary of a company's knowledge can provide competitive advantage. NPL's service enhances your company's knowledge management systems to capture and disseminate the outcomes from research in its most digestible format.