The Kroto Innovation Centre is an innovation centre for small and medium enterprises at the

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. The centre is collocated in the Nanoscience building with the EPSRC Centre for III-V technologies. The centre is named after Sir

Harry Kroto Sir Harold Walter Kroto (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016), known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery ...

and the building is owned and managed by the University of Sheffield.

History

The Kroto Innovation Centre opened in 2007 and was funded by the

European Regional Development Fund The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is one of the European Structural and Investment Funds allocated by the European Union. Its purpose is to transfer money from richer regions (not countries), and invest it in the infrastructure and s ...

, Objective 1 South Yorkshire and

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as a space for

emerging technology Emerging technologies are technologies whose development, practical applications, or both are still largely unrealized. These technologies are generally new but also include older technologies finding new applications. Emerging technologies ar ...

and

nanoscale The nanoscopic scale (or nanoscale) usually refers to structures with a length scale applicable to nanotechnology, usually cited as 1–100 nanometers (nm). A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. The nanoscopic scale is (roughly speaking) a lo ...

technology small and medium enterprises to work alongside University of Sheffield academics. It is the accompanying space to the Sheffield Bioincubator and was intended for early stage businesses as part of the

Sheffield city region The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority is the combined authority for South Yorkshire in England, with powers over transport (public transport and major trunk roads only), economic development and regeneration. It covers a total area of 3 ...

cluster. Its purpose is to provide commercial links and access to Research and Development at the University of Sheffield.

Nanoscience

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council national centre for III-V technologies creates III-V epitaxial materials, structures and devices in a university environment. As well as the University of Sheffield its partners include the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

, the

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and the

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. The University of Sheffield site is the main physical space for the partnership.

Notable partnerships

The centre is home to the

Siemens Wind Power Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', ''E ...

Research Centre which carries out innovative research into

wind power Wind power or wind energy is mostly the use of wind turbines to generate electricity. Wind power is a popular, sustainable, renewable energy source that has a much smaller impact on the environment than burning fossil fuels. Historically ...

. Another notable company based at the centre is Ossila Ltd, who have partnered with the University of Sheffield and other universities on a variety of projects, including a commission from the

National Tsing Hua University National Tsing Hua University (NTHU; ) is a public research university in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. National Tsing Hua University was first founded in Beijing. After the Chinese Civil War, the then-president of the university, Mei Yiqi, and othe ...

to create the Fast Automated Characterization of Transistors System in 2013 to accelerate

organic electronics Organic electronics is a field of materials science concerning the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of organic molecules or polymers that show desirable electronic properties such as conductivity. Unlike conventional inorga ...

research in

Semiconductor device fabrication Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to manufacture semiconductor devices, typically integrated circuit (IC) chips such as modern computer processors, microcontrollers, and memory chips such as NAND flash and DRAM that are p ...

and

polymer A polymer (; Greek '' poly-'', "many" + ''-mer'', "part") is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules called macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits. Due to their broad spectrum of properties, both synthetic a ...

testing.Polymers - FACT Polymer Testing System
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References

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History

Nanoscience

Notable partnerships

See also

References