The Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) will be used in conjunction with other strategically committed funding sources to address the following aims:
- Achieve a step change improvement in engagement with new partners, through our Glasgow City Innovation District, to stimulate and accelerate company growth.
- Achieve a step change in engagement with small and medium enterprises (SME).
- Build strategic partnerships through broadening of early-stage engagements, stimulating multi-disciplinary approaches to industrial challenges
- Create an environment that accelerates the careers of the next generation of researchers and impact leaders, providing training in responsible research and innovation (RRI); impact planning and execution; opportunities for early career researchers to lead impact projects.
- Stimulate new interdisciplinary and diverse research projects across research council remits
- Inspire a new generation of Impact Champions
- Build upon activity embedded from previous IAAs to deliver impact from EPS research portfolio.