Research and Knowledge Exchange Office
We are committed to nurturing a dynamic research environment and encouraging the exchange of knowledge. We offer assistance and resources to researchers, faculty, and students to support their research efforts and collaborations. We are also identifying funding opportunities, managing research grants, and promoting the impact of UNNC's research excellence. Additionally, we collaborate closely with potential industrial partners to comprehend their business opportunities and challenges, and to help them leverage our expertise, utilise our research, knowledge, and inventions to enter new markets, reach new customers, and enhance their business performance.
Through collaboration with research institutions, industry partners, policy-makers and the general public, we can deliver impactful research and knowledge exchange activities to make a difference to the community and to improve the progression towards an outcome beneficial to society.
Research collaboration
We are committed to gathering, cultivating and collaborating with a diversity of top-level talents on our mission to achieve excellence in research and innovation.
Intellectual properties
We have a global reputation for pioneering inventions and turning them into commercial success stories across multiple industries, including licensing and spin-out companies.
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Industry engagement
Research and innovation are the pillars of your productivity and profitability enabled by our sector-leading researchers can help enhance the competitiveness of your business. The Research and Knowledge Exchange Office can work closely with you to understand your business opportunities and challenges and help you access our expertise, utilising our research, knowledge and inventions to enter new markets, reach new customers and improve your business performance.
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Policy engagement
By engaging the public, we can inspire individuals of all ages, gain valuable insights, and provide tools to help navigate a complex and evolving world.
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Entrepreneurship and start-ups
We are committed to be a bridge connecting international talents and business resources with local needs, and to be an international hub to deliver UNNC impact in innovation and entrepreneurship locally and globally.
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Engage with our global-minded graduate talent
Our students are highly-sought after by some of the world's top companies, innovative start-ups, and third-sector organisations and their global mindset can bring fresh thinking and insights to your business.
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Find below our team profiles, click to explore how to contact us.
Research team provides policy analysis, 1-2-1 practical guidance and professional support to researchers across their academic journey for domestic and international research funding, with full lifecycle research project management support from funding opportunities to project closure.
Email: Research@nottingham.edu.cn
Phone: 0574-88180212-8212
Team leader: Ada Qian (National Grants)
Team members:
Doris Du (Municipal), Young Xue (Municipal), Vivien Yin (Provincial), Emma Zhu (Provincial), Joanna Huang (International), Ruofan Hou (HSS), Runtian Xu (Internal)
Knowledge exchange team supports academics to engage with industry partners, policymakers and the general public to deliver commercial, environmental, cultural and societal benefits and economic growth.
Email: KE@nottingham.edu.cn
Phone: 0574-88180000-8019
Team leader: Adam Xu (Aerospace and AgriFood, IP commercialisation)
Team members:
Kelly Yao (Green energy and environmental engineering, intelligent manufacturing, new materials and financial innovation), Michael Ying (Health, creative industry and architecture), Neil Ren (Digital and financial services), Karen Ning (IP manager), Carmen Hu (Assistant)
Li Dak Sum Incubator is the University's hub for innovation and entrepreneurship practice. From ideas generation, project development to incubation and acceleration, it provides full lifecycle support for entrepreneurs, connecting international talent and business resources with local needs.
Email: incubator@nottingham.edu.cn
Phone: 0574-8818000-2402
Team leader: Kiki Ye
Team members: Kevis Mao, Joe Wang, Grace Chen
Research operation team is dedicated to ensure smooth operations of Research Information System (RIS) and the effective engagement with its users and research data for planning, reporting and engagement purposes.
Email: UNNCRIS@nottingham.edu.cn
Phone: 0574-88180000-8836
Team leader: Field He
Team member: Yilia Wang