UK-San Diego Academic Bridges for Growth

The University of Southampton is set to share in one of four awards granted from the Department of Trade and Industry to expand its partnership work with top-ranked research and enterprise universities in southern California. The £1.5 million grant has been awarded to the SETsquared Partnership, the collaboration of the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton and Surrey.

The Partnership is the largest university enterprise collaboration in the UK. Announced last year (2005) by Lord Sainsbury, the DTI's Science and Innovation Minister, the grant will facilitate greater cooperation between the Partnership and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of California Irvine (UCI) in technology transfer, covering the high-growth research and industry areas of telecommunications, life science, the environment and new energy, nanotechnology, and new materials.

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