Partnerships | How Innovate UK drives business growth through knowledge transfer

For this episode, we spoke with Richard Lamb, Programme Manager for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships at Innovate UK, about one of the UK’s longest-running innovation instruments. For 50 years, KTP has embedded university expertise directly into businesses to solve strategic challenges and build lasting capability.We unpacked what makes the model distinctive, the pivotal role of the associate bridging academia and industry, and what other countries can learn from the UK’s experience in structured, impact-driven collaboration.