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Tailored in-house training covering core subject areas at a time and place convenient to you and your team.

At Knowledge Exchange UK, we recognise that each organisation has unique needs and challenges which can be supported with high quality training content and facilitation. Our in-house training courses are designed to provide tailored professional development for your team, fostering skills that drive effective collaboration and innovation.
Whether you are looking to enhance the capabilities of your staff or align your organisation’s objectives with the latest knowledge exchange practices, our expert trainers can deliver training solutions built around your needs. Our in-house courses can be designed to cover a variety of topics, ensuring that the content develops the skills and capabilities that your team needs.

 

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Why choose In-House Training?

CPD
CPD
Elevate your team's continuous professional development (CPD) with in-house training tailored to your organisation’s needs, promoting skills growth, collaboration, and practical application.
Flexibility
Flexibility
On-site at a venue of your choice, on a date that suits you, choosing the content most suitable for you.
Strategic Focus
Strategic Focus
Focus on training content that address your teams goals, gaps and blockers.
Privacy
Privacy
Have conversation that are confidential in a setting and environment that you trust, allowing teams to focus on real and emerging problems.
Value for Money
Value for Money
Maximise the impact of training by widening facilitation across the organisation and its different teams, while reducing travel and accommodation costs.
Follow Up Support
Follow Up Support
We review and evaluate training, identifying ongoing support.

Current Offerings

Our in-house training courses include:

Business development is essential for fostering impactful collaborations between academia and industry. Building these lasting partnerships requires tailored skills and strategies. Our Practical Business Development course equips you with tools to navigate the KE landscape, understand partners, create impact, and manage relationships effectively, enabling you to add value and drive success.

  • The Knowledge Exchange landscape and history of KE
  • Understanding what external partners want and hurdles to engagement
  • Academic motivations and barriers Creating impact
  • Funding and finance
  • Benefits realisation, productive conversations and the SPIN model
  • Managing the relationship and exceeding expectations
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Technology transfer is key to turning research into practical innovations, helping to address critical challenges in healthcare, sustainability, and beyond. Developing the necessary skills is essential, and our Fundamentals of Technology Transfer course is ideal for building that expertise.

  • Opportunity identification and evaluation
  • Intellectual Property (IP) – Non- patent IP, Patentable IP and patent searching.
  • Marketing and technical sales
  • Licensing – key issues and awareness of different areas/types of licensing
  • Commercial terms and company essentials
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Gain a clear, practical introduction to intellectual property (IP) and its critical role in turning research into real-world impact. This one-day course is designed for professionals working in and around university research who want to build confidence in identifying, protecting, and applying IP within a knowledge exchange context.

Through a mix of expert-led sessions and interactive exercises, you’ll explore the core forms of IP commonly encountered in academia—including patents, copyright, trademarks, design rights, database rights, and trade secrets—and understand when and how each can be used effectively. You’ll also gain insight into the patenting process, from searching and claims through to freedom to operate, lifecycle, and costs, alongside dedicated coverage of software-related IP.

The course goes beyond theory, with hands-on case studies and practical exercises that challenge you to identify IP within real-world scenarios and consider key questions around ownership, rights, and protection. You’ll also explore how IP underpins successful knowledge exchange, helping you move from discovery to application with greater clarity and confidence.

By the end of the course, you will be able to recognise different types of IP, assess appropriate protection strategies, and understand how IP supports collaboration, commercialisation, and impact.

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This course will introduce you to the KE landscape providing you with a firm foundation of knowledge, resources, tips and insights across everything you need to support the wider KE context, working with stakeholders, understanding commercialisation in all its forms and how to communicate innovation.

  • The context of Knowledge Exchange: The KEF, KE Concordat, Policy landscape, why KE is important to the university
  • Working with Businesses
  • Engagement: public and policy
  • Commercialisation and Enterprise
  • Innovation Communication
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Research contracts are essential for fostering collaboration, aligning stakeholders, and delivering societal benefits. Developing strong skills in drafting and managing these agreements ensures project success and innovation. Our specialised training equips you to navigate the complexities of research partnerships, enabling smoother processes and better outcomes for all involved.

  • Contract Law, Structure and Boilerplate
  • IP and Reviewing a Research Contract
  • Model Research Agreements
  • Negotiation
  • Liabilities, Indemnities and managing risk
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Designed specifically for researchers and academic staff, KE for Academics equips participants with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to engage more effectively beyond the university and maximise the impact of their research.

This highly practical, tailored course introduces the core principles of knowledge exchange (KE), helping academics understand how their work connects to industry, policy, and society. Participants will explore the wider KE landscape, including how collaboration, commercialisation, and engagement activities contribute to social and economic impact—an increasingly important priority across the UK research environment.

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This course is for anyone in Knowledge Exchange who has responsibility for negotiating with partners. This course could be used to improve skills for internal negotiations as well as negotiations with external partners.

  • Understanding negotiation and the human dimension – strategies for effective negotiation
  • Getting to GRIPS with negotiation – a framework for better outcomes Creating a tactical plan for effective negotiation
  • Negotiation practice and feedback
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Commercialisation in Healthcare is a practical in-house course designed to equip knowledge exchange and commercialisation professionals with the knowledge and practical tools to navigate the UK healthcare innovation ecosystem, understand NHS IP and commercialisation pathways, and structure effective partnerships and deals that support the adoption of innovation.
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By choosing in-house training, you can create a cohesive learning experience that promotes teamwork and shared understanding among your colleagues. Together, we will equip your team with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in their roles and make a meaningful impact within your organisation and beyond.  

Get in touch with a member of the team to discuss your in-house training needs.

 

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Client Testimonials

In-House Training
Introduction to Collaborative Research
Our team required a bespoke training session on Collaborative Research for Business delivered on site.   We valued the opportunity to receive onsite training and to work with the KEUK trainers to tailor the programme to meet our specific needs. The session was structured, clear and focused with the opportunity for discussion and questions. Since completing the training. the team have benefitted from an increased awareness and skills particularly in SPIN selling techniques and networking strategies to effectively communicate value, build partnerships, and advance collaborative research projects with industry.
Kingston University, July 2024
In-House Training
In-house Research Contracts
We received tailored training from Knowledge Exchange UK (KEUK) which was delivered in our office, saving time and costs. KEUK worked closely with us to understand our goals and the outcomes we would like to achieve from the training, as a result the training was highly interactive, offering relevant and engaging content that benefited both new and experienced staff. The team are now utilising the training by putting into practice the insights and tools provided.
In-house Client, September 2025
In-House Training
In-house Introduction to Knowledge Exchange and Commercialisation
We recently welcomed KEUK back to campus for their one day ‘Introduction to Knowledge Exchange and Commercialisation’ workshop. The day was expertly delivered by two engaging trainers and supported by excellent organisation throughout. The day was dynamic, interactive, and highly relevant to our academics and researchers. The feedback we received from the participants has been overwhelmingly positive, they found the content insightful, the delivery engaging and the practical examples extremely useful. This was the second time we have hosted this training and it was once again a great success. We are already planning to invite KEUK back for future sessions.
In-house Client, September 2025
In-House Training
In-house Fundamentals of Technology Transfer and Essentials of Business Development
We were delighted to receive training from KEUK, delivered conveniently at our own premises. This not only saved our teams valuable time, and the costs associated with travel and accommodation, but also encouraged stronger collaboration across internal departments that don’t typically work closely together. It’s been fantastic to see our teams putting the skills and tools gained from the training to use on an almost daily basis. The trainers were incredibly supportive and worked closely with us to tailor the course to meet our specific needs.
In-house Client, June 2024
In-House Training
In-house Essentials of Business Development
The training we received was outstanding. The focus and delivery were excellent, providing thoughtful and contemporary content into the core areas of KE. The delivery allowed colleagues new to the sector and those more experienced to learn new tactics and strategies to boost their KE engagement. Since the training, more colleagues have looked to engage in KE activity, and we have expanded our income around enterprise and applied research activity
In-house Client, September 2022
In-House Training
In-house Introduction to Commercialisation in the STEM and SHAPE sectors
Knowledge Exchange UK were very accommodating to our needs. We had a number of initial meetings to ensure the trainers and KEUK had a good understanding of where our team was and what we wanted to achieve from the training, which for a diverse team as ours was exactly what we needed. The sessions were planned to engage all team members around the topics of discussion and allowed us to put into practice what was covered within those sessions. The fact that the training was delivered on our premises also helped us achieve the maximum participation
In-house Client, April 2024
In-House Training
In-house Essentials of Business Development
The Cardiff University in-house KEUK (PraxisAuril) training in June 2024 was delivered to members of the Cardiff University Business Engagement Network, comprised of staff who engage with external organisations across a variety of areas. The training provided significant benefits to our external facing colleagues as well as providing highly valued internal networking. It has since enabled enhanced collaboration and knowledge sharing among the staff that attended and many of the participants appreciated connecting with colleagues from different departments, fostering a sense of community and understanding of the university's broader offerings which otherwise may not have occurred. This networking has since led to better resource utilisation and professional relationships, which has the potential to positively impact career development. The course was widely considered by our leadership team as good value for money, with attendees feeling better equipped using tools like SPIN and stakeholder mapping for their work.
Cardiff University, June 2024