Facilitating Impact and Knowledge Exchange
Mission Statement
The BPU provides innovation and impact support to the School of Chemistry. We strive to:
- Identify and nurture impact opportunities from cutting edge research teams.
- Expand our engagement with local and regional companies to support the high growth cluster of chemistry using businesses.
- Build on our expertise in public engagement and our Centre for Sustainable Chemistry.
- Increase our interaction with policy makers to influence Government/Industrial strategy.
Find out more about our current and past Innovation Projects
Facilitating Impact
The flow diagram below outlines how BPU facilitates impact:
RKE support for the School of Chemistry Research Themes
A key objective of the BPU is to provide dedicated support to the Research Themes identifying funding opportunities and industry links, establishing a healthy pipeline of impact activity at various stages of maturity and delivering impacts at local, regional, national and international scale.
The School of Chemistry Research Themes are supported by the following BPU team members:
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Chemical Biology: TBC
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Materials: TBC
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Molecular Bonding and Spectroscopy: TBC
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Synthesis and Catalysis: TBC
Impact Audits
Our regular impact audits of research conducted in the School has, to-date, identified >60 impact opportunities in varying stages of development.
Leveraging input from industrial stakeholders, we ensure our research outputs are aligned to key societal and industry challenges.
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