TWI Innovation Network: unifying industry collaboration
TWI Hellas is part of the TWI Innovation Network (TWIIN), an international innovation ecosystem comprising centres, programmes and services designed to assist industry and academic partners with innovation acceleration and business improvement. TWI Hellas works closely with TWIIN, its extensive network of partners and TWI Industrial Members, to support companies and organisations of different sizes with technology innovation.
TWIIN centres and programmes
- The National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC) – postgraduate engineering facility offering structural integrity related PhDs and MScs to advance fundamental research with real world applications in industry
- Innovation Centres – partnerships between leading universities and TWI, each based on a different sector or technology area, which undertake collaborative R&D spanning TRLs 4-6
- Technology Acceleration Programmes (TAPs) – created for SME Members to help develop and enhance their businesses, who can also take out a TWIIN subscription to access more in-depth support
- Private Technology Innovation Partnerships (PTIPs) – partnerships between international or multi-national companies or organisations and TWI to undertake R&D with academia, RTOs, industry operators and supply chains, spanning TRLs 4-9
- TWI Innovation Network (TWIIN) subscription – a range of packages designed for companies and organisations looking to build on their technology development ambitions to bring more products, systems or services to market, and who would benefit from joining forces with TWI Innovation Network and Industrial Members as well as TWI’s Innovation Centres and international network of communities
Tailored innovation support
The Technology Innovation Management (TIM) team assists SMEs and university partners with accessing public funding to turn new technology concepts into collaborative projects. Since 2008, the TIM team has been instrumental in securing over 420 projects via public funding, to the value of circa £579 million, involving over 1,100 individual partner organisations across the UK and Europe.
Innovation Consultancy Services (ICS) provides tailored support to unlock business opportunities and new market entry. Deliverables include technology road mapping, product innovation, trends analysis and future focus development.
The TWIIN Subscription model offers companies a cost-effective way to benefit from TWI’s extensive experience of industrial innovation going back over 50 years, optimising supply chain performance and meeting industry demand for new products, systems and services.