The BBSRC Industrial Impact Fellowship scheme seeks to enable highly skilled research and technology leaders from industry to transfer their skills and experience from the industrial sector into an academic setting. The scheme aims to enhance the impact of BBSRC-funded research by enabling the Fellow to bring their industrial skills, management, and commercial experience to enhance collaboration and partnership between the academic and industrial sectors. Fellows would be expected to demonstrate how their industrial background and research will benefit the work of a BBSRC-funded centre, institute, or academic department with significant BBSRC-funded research programme, to help to achieve a step-change in the economic impact of its work.

The fellowship will ideally be for a period of up to four years, where matched departmental funding will be viewed favourably by the assessment committee. The scheme is flexible with regard to the particular role proposed in an application, but it is expected that Fellows will take on a significant 'science programme manager' role within an existing BBSRC research programme. For example, the Fellows could manage innovation and business development, acting as liaison with industry partners, overseeing the development of the commercial potential of the research being pursued, etc. It is expected that Fellows will be embedded within a department and complement local technology transfer office (or equivalent) activities. For further information, visit the website below or contact Avril Ferris. Tel: 01793 413258; Email: [email protected]. The closing date for applications is 11 November 2009.

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