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Unlock cutting-edge expertise, funding and fresh talent with a Knowledge Transfer Partnership.
Is your business ready to innovate?
A Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with the University of Hull gives you access to world-class knowledge, technology and skills to drive innovation, boost productivity, and gain a competitive edge.
Our partnerships have helped businesses develop game-changing products, streamline operations and expand into new markets - turning ideas into real-world success.
What is a KTP?
A government-backed programme, funded by Innovate UK, that helps businesses solve strategic challenges and grow.
Each KTP creates a unique partnership between a business and a university, enabling the transfer of knowledge, technology and skills otherwise inaccessible to companies. Tailor-made for your business, KTPs support innovation through new products, services, or process development.
A KTP is a three-way collaboration between a business, a university and a skilled graduate (KTP Associate).
- Business Partner – Gains access to university expertise to tackle strategic challenges.
- Academic Institution – Provides specialist knowledge and research insights.
- KTP Associate – A highly-skilled graduate or postgraduate - recruited by us - to manage the project in your organisation.
How to get started
Here's a a step-by-step process to securing a Knowledge Transfer Partnership at the University of Hull.
Talk to Us
Discuss your business needs with our KTP team
Define Your Project
Match with university expertise and scope key milestones
Secure Funding
Apply for funding with university support
Recruit Your KTP Associate
Find the right talent to lead the project
Deliver Innovation
Implement with ongoing expert guidance
Success stories
Innovation is the lifeblood of any business. Our partnerships have driven growth, increased turnover, and opened new markets. And that’s not all - two-thirds of Graduate Associates secure permanent roles with their host company, embedding expertise and driving long-term impact.
Paragon ID - Expanding into new markets
Our partnership was a game changer, opening new markets and increasing turnover and profits.
Ansell – Reducing costs and improving quality
This two-year partnership helped to reduce testing costs, improve quality control and drive innovation, and was graded “outstanding” by the independent KTP Grading Panel.
Singleton Birch – Driving product innovation
Our experts helped the UK’s leading independent lime supplier develop a new product that set them apart from their competition.
KTP Partnerships
Find out how we have made a difference to organisations through our KTP partnerships.
KTP Partnerships - RECKITT
KTP Partnerships - Reckitt
AI for shelf-life predicition
This KTP focused on developing an Al-powered decision support tool to predict the shelf life of healthcare products. By analysing historical stability data, the project combined data-driven insights with cutting-edge science to support innovation and sustainability goals. It was awarded the Certificate of Excellence - Outstanding (highest grade) by Innovate UK.
This KTP focused on developing an AI-powered decision support tool to predict the shelf life of healthcare products. By analysing historical stability data, the project combined data-driven insights with cutting-edge science.Joyjit Chatterjee
IT & Digital Data Scientist, KTP Associate
Smart health monitoring
This collaboration investigated the development of an intelligent hand-held, non-intrusive monitoring device for the care industry. Designed for the ageing population, it will empower carers and users to detect and prevent clinical incidents and/or limit their severity for the user.
The KTP partnership is an excellent route for industry-academia collaboration. It gave us access to get government funding for a focused project and helped the company transition from being a follower, to being a leaderPaul Bennett
Managing Director, NCS
KTP Partnerships - Sargents electrical services
Net Zero farming
This project developed an Intelligent Decision Assistant consisting of sensors and smart software tools to optimise agricultural enterprises and help farms achieve Net Zero by 2040. The system uses Big Data analysis, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning software to support smarter, more sustainable farming.
The KTP experience was a great way to work directly with local industry, gaining insights into their needs and ways of working, and to see how our research can be applied in practice.Neil Gordon
Lead Academic, University of Hull
KTP Partnerships - Wren Kitchens
Carbon mapping for sustainability
This partnership will create a unique supply chain carbon-mapping tool to help Wren Kitchens embed sustainability across its operations. It will allow customers to choose kitchen products based on their carbon footprint at the point of sale, supporting more sustainable consumer decisions. It will also help embed environmental sustainability knowledge, know-how and innovation from the University across their business.
The KTP is an exciting and challenging initiative, which I am eager to embrace and lead from a Wren perspective. It will guide our corporate strategy through specialist expert advice and will help us to deliver our Net Zero Carbon 2030 objective.Trevor Nixon
Head of Retail Health and Safety
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