{"id":199,"date":"2017-02-07T09:35:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T09:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uweresearchbusinessandinnovation.business.blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:38:04","slug":"ktp-success-story-west-technology-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/ktp-success-story-west-technology-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"KTP Success Story: West Technology Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collaboration between West Technology and UWE Bristol is a fantastic example of the University\u2019s involvement in the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme. Since West Technology recruited a graduate through the programme, sales of its fingerprint-detection machines have gone through the roof. Managing Director Ian Harris also says the KTP further boosted the company\u2019s credibility in the forensics world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KTP success story: West Technology Systems\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X2DwpDLSxYY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">This partnership received financial support from the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships programme (KTP).\u00a0 KTP aims to help businesses to improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of knowledge, technology and skills that reside within the UK knowledge base.\u00a0\u00a0This successful Knowledge Transfer Partnership project, funded by UK Research and Innovation through Innovate UK, is part of the government\u2019s Industrial Strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collaboration between West Technology and UWE Bristol is a fantastic example of the University\u2019s involvement in the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme. Since West Technology recruited a graduate through the programme, sales of its fingerprint-detection machines have gone through the roof. Managing Director Ian Harris also says the KTP further boosted the company\u2019s credibility &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/ktp-success-story-west-technology-systems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KTP Success Story: West Technology Systems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1451,1450,145,1452],"tags":[11,17,37,40,42,151,796,46,1449,62,65,75,420],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-partnerships","category-knowledge-transfer-partnership","category-knowledge-transfer-partnerships","category-ktp","category-ktps","tag-bristol","tag-business","tag-forensics","tag-innovate-uk","tag-innovation","tag-knowledge-transfer-partnership","tag-knowledge-transfer-partnerships","tag-ktp","tag-ktps","tag-research","tag-sme","tag-uwe-bristol","tag-uwe-ktp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7064,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/7064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}