New Discovery Joins DTI-funded Bioscience for Business Network (March 2006)

We are proud to announce that New Discovery Recruitment has joined the Bioscience for Business Knowledge Transfer Network as a specialist in the emerging technologies.

The Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTN) initiative is a new business support venture launched in February 2006 by the Department for Trade and Industry.
The Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Sainsbury, explained: “These new networks will play a key role in the development and evolution of a national Technology Strategy which, at its core is about ensuring the UK remains as a world leader in science and innovation.

The purpose of the Bioscience for Business KTN is to generate new multidisciplinary opportunities, offering new benefits for industry and new ideas for bio-renewable supply chains.''

The KTN Consortium, led by the University of York, incorporates the earlier Pro-Bio Faraday Partnership for industrial biotechnology, the National Non-Food Crops Centre and the Blue Microbe Network. It will link with Knowledge Transfer Networks in other disciplines to ensure that existing world-class knowledge-base and skills in the UK are used to optimum effect and will additionally identify the potential synergies that can be gained from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the development of new bio-products and bio-processes.

Says New Discovery Director Zoë Dunn: “We positively support the aims and views of this important bioscience network, particularly their adoption of the holistic approach which we recognise as being fundamentally important to discovery science and technology today.”

More information about the KTN, please visit www.bioscienceKTN.com