WARRINGTON-based Conveyor Networks Ltd, a high tech automation and software specialist, has been awarded £115,000 funding Management Knowledge Transfer Partnership (mKTP) with Manchester Metropolitan University.
The company plans to use this mKTP to enable streamlined growth. The investment will support the strategic development of its complementary software products portfolio, delivered by sister company imio Software Solutions.
Added expertise from the team at the university should enable Conveyor Networks aims to accelerate integration of the subtly different requirements of a “software as a service” approach, alongside the high tech automation solutions it has been providing for more than 10 years.
Introduced last year by the government’s department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) through Innovate UK, mKTPs complement the long-running and highly successful KTP programme, which links forward-looking businesses with academic teams in UK universities to deliver innovation projects.
Conveyor Networks managing director, David Carroll, said: “Conveyor Networks is a solution provider. We felt that having some expert knowledge at hand to help with the transition to a more standardised product approach would be of benefit.”
KTP programme manager at Innovate UK, Richard Lamb, added: “Management KTPs are an exciting new way for businesses to access the expertise within the UK’s business schools and introduce new ways of working. They can help a business explore strategic and structural change and learn how to embed this new knowledge into their business so that they can continue to grow, even after the mKTP project has finished.”
The university’s Professor Paul Smith said: “Our academic team has strength in the academic domain supporting strategic transformation and market development and depth of industry and consulting experience. We look forward to working closely together with Conveyor Networks on this project and seeing the outputs of this partnership.”
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