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Process Accreditation

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The Institute of Knowledge Transfer sets the standards for the development of its profession. It is keen to help knowledge transfer professionals work more effectively by drawing on good international practice and providing support and guidance on a range of relevant KT processes.

The IKT is actively seeking to highlight and accredit operators of good practice Knowledge Transfer processes which support the innovation process of capturing, assessing, developing and commercialising innovations. Companies and institutions will have the opportunity to demonstrate through their own language and materials, the way in which their process operates and how they meet the accreditation requirements. While the IKT expect the processes to be unique to each organisation, they will be looking to accredit robust and sustainable processes with a high standard of operation and the ability to demonstrate success in application. The processes may relate to any stage or number of stages of the innovation process.

The accreditation process is based on a balance of KT understanding, quality assurance measures and procedures. The process is designed to provide confidence to KT practitioners that the processes are relevant to innovation process and endorsed by their professional institute. The assessment is made by the IKT Process Accreditation Committee, a team of experienced KT specialists and practitioners, who review the process and provider against defined criteria.

The IKT is very proud to have accredited the BDI's Innovation Filter - a secure portal for evaluating ideas, trading IP and identifying business partners online. The Innovation Filter improves the effectiveness and efficiency of a new innovation's route to market using the design and innovation experience and expertise of accredited BDI members. BDI has developed a best practice process using the expertise, skills, knowledge and support of BDI expert parties to establish a new idea, concept, product or service's commercial viability and IP status and to add value to it to realise the commercial prospect of innovations.

For further information and for an application form for the process accreditation recognition award, contact Russ Hepworth AMInstKT, Business Development Manager on +44 7595 217910 or contact the main details below.



BDI's Innovation Filter Gains Institute of Knowledge Transfer Accreditation British Design Innovation (BDI), the trade organisation for leading industrial designers, service designers and innovation professionals, announced today that their Innovation Filter knowledge transfer process has been formally accredited by the Institute of Knowledge Transfer (IKT). The IKT sets standards and addresses issues surrounding knowledge transfer accreditation, certification, training and development, while BDI promotes its members' creative expertise, knowledge and experience in designing and commercialising world-class products and developing brands.

"This approval of our knowledge transfer procedures and documentation is a significant achievement," said Maxine Horn, BDI's CEO. "By drawing on international best practice procedure, the IKT has confirmed that our members and other innovation and knowledge transfer professionals who engage with them do so on an expert level playing field, where both parties' intellectual property (IP) and other proprietary information remains properly protected."

This is especially pertinent for originators requesting BDI's expert assessment, advice and support on the route to market via the organisation's Innovation Filter, she added. BDI has developed a best practice process to establish the IP status and commercial viability of a new idea, concept, product or service and add value to it.

"In effect, the IKT's accreditation confirms that BDI members have the same best practise Knowledge Provider status for the HEI sector as university design and innovation centres and others - a major expansion of provision for those risk-averse SMEs seeking product design and development, and also for university research departments seeking to commercialise their research findings and exploit their IP."

Sir Brian Fender, chairman of IKT, commented: "It has been a pleasure working with BDI and I welcome the IKT accreditation of this valuable approach to capturing innovation. We hope others will follow BDI in benchmarking their innovation and KT processes."

About BDI - The Voice of Industrial & Service Design

British Design Innovation (BDI) is the trade organisation for leading industrial designers, service designers and innovation professionals that promotes members' creative expertise, knowledge and experience.

The most influential independent membership association of its kind, BDI is the representative voice to industry of the majority of the most qualified top-end product, service, brand, digital and innovative 3D packaging designers in the UK, each with over a decade of experience in sectors such as aeronautics, biotechnology, consumer electronics, food and drink, medical, nanotechnology, telecommunications and transport. A not-for-profit organisation, BDI receives no government funding.

Founded in 1993, BDI is financed by its members and managed by 30 regional board directors. BDI member companies generate a collective turnover of over £200 million per annum in a UK design industry representing over £4.5 billion of design-sector turnover and an average £1 billion of export income. Working from HM Government assessments that £1 invested in strategic design generates an ROI for business of £225, its members companies are responsible for generating £5 billion per annum in industry revenue.

BDI's designers are engaged as key advisors by the world's largest brand owners to progress their product, service and brand development contracts. They apply new ideas and ways of thinking in support of start-ups, early-stage companies, global corporations, science parks and university technology spin-outs, and advise established portfolio companies on behalf of fund managers and investment teams. They play a crucial role in IP commercialisation, innovation and brand strategy, new market identification and applications, design development, implementation and stakeholder management, and translate science, engineering and technology into tangible products and services businesses can manufacture and consumers wish to buy. With portals in every region of the UK, BDI is concerned with the engagement of these world-class designers as the glue binding innovation and knowledge transfer partnerships together.

STRATEGIC DESIGN is the application of design principles to increase an organisation's innovative and competitive qualities and enables design decisions to be based on facts rather than aesthetics or intuition, through the analysis of user-centred trends and data. It is regarded as an effective way to bridge innovation, research, management and design.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN improves the aesthetics, production and marketability of a product by resolving problems of form, usability, ergonomics, engineering, marketing, brand development and sales.

SERVICE DESIGN is the activity of planning and organising people, infrastructures, communication and the material components of a service, in order to improve its quality, the interaction between service provider and customers and the customer's experience.

www.britishdesigninnovation.org