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Two hands each holding a puzzle piece, joining them together. One puzzle piece is labelled “Innovative Ideas” and the other is labelled “Funding.” The image symbolises the powerful connection between creative innovation and financial support coming together to build successful solutions.
10 July, 2025

Parkhood (UK) Ltd have been awarded funding for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships at Queen's.

11 July, 2024

Queen's KTP Associates, Shay McEvoy and Ansu Mary Alex, have been shortlisted for the Future Leader Award at the 2025 Innovate UK KTP Awards.

4 April, 2025

Marking 50 years of the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme, Queen's proudly hosted a special event on Wednesday 2nd April 2025.

5 March, 2025

Ansu, a passionate and dedicated concrete technologist at Moore Concrete Products Ltd is listed as one of Northern Ireland's most successful young people for her sustainability leadership demonstrated in her KTP project and beyond.

Two hands each holding a puzzle piece, joining them together. One puzzle piece is labelled “Innovative Ideas” and the other is labelled “Funding.” The image symbolises the powerful connection between creative innovation and financial support coming together to build successful solutions.
2 December, 2024

Four new Knowledge Transfer Partnerships at Queen's have been awarded funding by Innovate UK.

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29 November, 2024

Queen's continues to set the standard for KTP excellence at the 2024 national KTP Awards winning three awards.

11 July, 2024

The Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) team at Queen's University Belfast is proud to announce that we have been shortlisted for four highly esteemed awards at this year’s National KTP Awards.

2 May, 2024

Innovate UK has recently approved funding for four new Knowledge Transfer Partnerships at Queen’s.

4 September, 2023

The collaborative partnership between Queen's School of Pharmacy and Terumo BCT received the top 'Outstanding' rating from Innovate UK for the development of next-generation pharmaceutical packaging.

31 August, 2023

Queen’s University Belfast are delighted to announce that a KTP project with Almac has been shortlisted for Innovate UK’s prestigious Technical Excellence award at the KTP Awards 2023.

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10 November, 2022

Queen’s University Belfast KTP Associate and expert in civil engineering and materials science, Catherine Campbell, has been crowned a ‘Future Leader’ at the national KTP Awards.

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1 November, 2022

A partnership between Queen’s University Belfast and Cirdan has been recognised by Innovate UK as the ‘Best Knowledge Transfer Partnership’ of 2022 out of 800 UK wide projects for its exceptional achievements and real-world impact.

Queen’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership with TODD Architects is awarded an Outstanding Grade from Innovate UK for developing new, innovative spaces

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Queen’s University Belfast and Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies collaborate in Knowledge Transfer Partnership to develop next generation pharmaceutical packaging.

The collaborative project between the School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen’s and Resistant Building Products Ltd is awarded an ‘Outstanding’ grade from Innovate UK for developing effective R&D capabilities within the company

BLK BOX Fitness and Queen’s University Belfast have announced their KTP project to develop the end-to-end design and manufacturing processes for challenging products.

The collaborative project between Queen’s School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Cirdan is awarded top grade of ‘Outstanding’ from Innovate UK for enhancing pathology medical device products.

On Thursday 23rd September the most positive impacts of collaboration between businesses and Knowledge Bases throughout the UK were celebrated. Queen’s KTP Associate Justin McHenry, with VU.CITY was awarded 'Future Leader' status at the ceremony.

The collaborative project between Queen’s School of Natural and Built Environment and Felix O’Hare & Co is awarded top grade of ‘Outstanding’ from Innovate UK for the engagement of new software technologies in the open field construction environment

30 July, 2021

The collaborative project between Queen’s School of Natural and Built Environment and VU.CITY is awarded top grade of ‘Outstanding’ from Innovate UK for the development of interactive 3D model; PlanTech

CP Cases and Queen’s University Belfast have announced their second KTP project to develop and implement SME focused digitalisation and lean methods (including digital lean) for both internal and external integration and compatibility.

10 September, 2020

The Knowledge Transfer Team (KTP) team at Queen’s are absolutely delighted to have scooped up four awards across two categories (‘Engineering Excellence’ and ‘Future Innovator’) at the KTP Best of the Best Awards 2020.

9 July, 2020

Queen's KTP project with IG Masonry Support, has been shortlisted in the 'Engineering Excellence' category at this years KTP Best of the Best Awards after an incredible number of strong nominations were put to the panel.

26 June, 2020

Four Queen's KTP Associates have been shortlisted as finalists in this years KTP Best of the Best Awards after an incredible number of strong nominations were put to the panel.

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If your business has a great innovative idea but just doesn't have the in-house expertise to see it through- that's where we come in!

KTP Associate - Sensum 2 Daniel Moore
27 May, 2020

Sensum recently completed their second Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Queen’s University Belfast and was awarded an ‘Outstanding’ classification by Innovate UK.

Innovation vouchers
28 April, 2020

While all applications will be welcomed the focus of this call will be to encourage businesses that plan to use the Innovation Voucher to help tackle the current situation of COVID-19.

GradIreland KTP shortlisted
27 April, 2020

KTP at Queen’s are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted in the ‘Graduate Programme of the Year’ category at the GradIreland Recruitment Awards 2020, the largest early careers recruitment awards in Ireland.

KTP team members
7 February, 2020

On Friday 7th February 2020, the KTP Team at Queen's picked up their 'Team of the Year' award at the annual Queen's Staff Excellence Awards.

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14 February, 2020

On Friday 14th February, Valentines Day, the KTP Team spread some love from 12 noon with FREE #KTPizza for QUB students.

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13 December, 2019

On Friday 13th December, KTP at Queen's launched their Management KTP Programme at the Glenavon House Hotel, Cookstown.

KTP team members
3 May, 2019

On Thursday 2 May, the KTP team at Queen's won 'Outstanding Contribution from a Knowledge Base KTP Support team' at the Innovate UK KTP Best of the Best 2019 awards.

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As further evidence of the continued success of KTP at Queen’s, Queen’s has reached a collaboration milestone, achieving a portfolio of over 50 live Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.

With the help of biotech executives in the area, LABIOTECH shortlisted the top ten Scottish biotech companies they think you should know about based on innovation, growth, and fundraising successes in the last few years.