Management Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (MKTPs) Event

Expand management capability and transform business performance

Innovate UK has introduced a new programme designed to inject significant management expertise that expands business capability, increases efficiency and enables lasting change and growth. Management KTPs (MKTPs) create a dynamic 3-way partnership between your company, a team of academic experts and a skilled graduate. The focus of a MKTP is specifically on driving effectiveness through better management practices.

MKTPs take a wide view, incorporating a range of leadership and management skills and requirements to build a strategy that drives change and improves business performance. Spanning all key business functions - from marketing to IT, creativity to strategic management; HR to employment relations; finance to logistics - MKTPs seek to support strategic management projects across core activities including:

  • Monitoring and target setting
  • Communication and motivation
  • Organisation, resource planning and strategic thinking
  • Problem-solving and decision-making
  • Commercial awareness and risk management
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Options evaluations, horizon scanning and fore sighting

If you think a MKTP could help your company increase its productivity contact the Leeds University Business School. 

Register here


Draft agenda:

12:30 – 13:00 Arrival, registration and lunch
13:00 – 13:10 Introductions and welcome
13:10 – 13:30 Introduction to MKTP and how it works for SMEs
13:30 – 14:00 Case study discussion – meet the team (academics and businesses)
14:00 – 14:15 Briefing from the LEP about other innovation fund activities
14:15 – 14:30 Break
14:30 – 15:00 R&D tax credits – claiming back the innovation investment     
15:00 – 16:30 Workshop on building a MKTP proposal
16:30 – 16:45 Reflections, next steps and close

For further information please contact: cepe@leeds.ac.uk