{"id":5157,"date":"2024-02-22T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T11:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-business-innovation\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:04:13","slug":"uwe-bristol-announce-new-knowledge-transfer-partnership-with-duku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/uwe-bristol-announce-new-knowledge-transfer-partnership-with-duku\/","title":{"rendered":"UWE Bristol announce new Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Duku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UWE Bristol, with Duku, have been successful in securing grant funding from Innovate UK to form a new 24-month Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duku<\/a> is an innovative and entrepreneurial engineering design consultancy that take client ideas and develop them into full marketable designs. They have recently added in-house product design and development to their design business, developing a new and unique electric vehicle (EV) charging point, which has considerable potential as the only accessible charging point available, that conforms to the new BSI standard for accessible EV charging products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project aim is to embed a full commercialisation capability within the business and to exploit innovative in-house designed products. This will enable Duku to directly market their own products and offer a full-service idea-to-market capability for new and existing design consultancy clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UWE Bristol academics Dr Mel Smith<\/a>, Eamonn Condon<\/a> and Dr Akin Ojolo<\/a> will be working on the project. Mel Smith will be the lead and is an Associate Professor in Operations Management. Eamonn Condon is a Programme Leader for, and Senior Lecturer in Marketing, and Akin Ojolo is a Senior Lecturer at UWE Bristol Business School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Duku is a really dynamic and exciting engineering design consultancy, which has recently had a breakthrough in the design of fully accessible EV charging points. This KTP will be instrumental in helping them commercialise their EV chargers and will also extend their capabilities so they can deliver commercialisation services to their clients. The project will enable the business to grow and enhance the support they offer to their clients and should lead to many more promising innovations being brought successfully to market.\u201d

Mel Smith, Associate Professor in Operations Management<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We will soon be welcoming our Strategic Commercialisation Manager (Associate) who will conduct research into the EV market, identify an appropriate sales strategy to bring the product to market successfully and lead a significant change in strategic direction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UWE Bristol, with Duku, have been successful in securing grant funding from Innovate UK to form a new 24-month Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP). Duku is an innovative and entrepreneurial engineering design consultancy that take client ideas and develop them into full marketable designs. They have recently added in-house product design and development to their design … Continue reading “UWE Bristol announce new Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Duku”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":5220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":145,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1451,1450,145,1452,127],"tags":[17,42,151,796,46,421,1449,74,75,420],"class_list":["post-5157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-partnerships","category-knowledge-transfer-partnership","category-knowledge-transfer-partnerships","category-ktp","category-ktps","category-research-business-innovation","tag-business","tag-innovation","tag-knowledge-transfer-partnership","tag-knowledge-transfer-partnerships","tag-ktp","tag-ktp-case-study","tag-ktps","tag-uwe","tag-uwe-bristol","tag-uwe-ktp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157","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\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7030,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions\/7030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}