Cardiff Hartree SME Engagement Spoke

卡迪夫哈特里中小企业参与辐条

• 批准号: ST/X005291/1
• 负责人: Alun Preece
• 金额: $ 155.43万
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FX005291%2F1
• 关键词: Cardiff; Hartree; SME; Engagement; Spoke

The Cardiff Hartree Spoke will build on a vibrant AI, data science and high-performance computing research and innovation community centred on Cardiff University, with immediate access to Cardiff Capital Region and Western Gateway SME clusters. The Spoke team has deep first-hand experience of running innovative impact-led research and development in collaborative environments, with strong industry relationships and tried-and-tested SME engagement approaches. Our Spoke will be able to hit the ground running with a rapid start, leveraging significant recent University investments in its 'innovation ecosystem', coupled with carefully planned growth to full capacity. Cardiff University's proposed Spoke will provide targeted, locally-accessible AI, data science, and high-performance computing support to SMEs in the Cardiff Capital Region extending to the Western Gateway area. Our engagement and project activity will be centred in the Cardiff Capital Region - spanning Bridgend to Monmouthshire - while also reaching out to SMEs in the Western Gateway located around Bristol, Cheltenham and Gloucester.The Spoke will be led and operated by Cardiff University. The transformative impact of data and AI is core to the university's research strategy, with headcount of Computer Science and Mathematics academic staff nearly doubling since 2016. Cardiff leads Supercomputing Wales, a £16M programme delivering HPC support. The University has recently invested significantly in establishing its new Innovation Campus. The sbarc|spark building opened in March 2022 as the 'front door' to the Campus, housing SPARK - the world's first social science research park, and Innovations@sbarc - a creative space for start-ups, spin-outs and partnerships. We propose to locate the Cardiff Hartree Spoke in sbarc|spark to situate it at the centre of the university's 'innovation ecosystem' with close access to key stakeholders and partners. The unique combination of facilities, people and existing SME connections that we have available means that we can launch the spoke with a very fast start on 01/12/22. We plan to achieving a rapid start by building on our existing networks of SMEs.The planned work of the Spoke is closely aligned with HNCDI Programme:Explore: This will be the focus of the Spoke, building engagement with SMEs, understanding their needs, and developing projects. Cardiff's long track record working with the IBM team in research and innovation via International Technology Alliance programmes, combined with experience of targeting data innovation to the region's SME sectors in the Data Innovation Accelerator initiative, will facilitate an accelerated start to Explore activity. Explain: The University's mission to develop skills in the data science, AI, and advanced computing domains put us in a strong position to include elements of Explain alongside the Spoke's primary activity in Explore. We will draw on the academic teachers and experts in Abacws to offer 'explainers' as part the Spoke's engagement delivery.Excelerate: We will work closely with the HNCDI team to identify and foster engagements and projects with potential to develop into Excelerate activity. We note that this way of working is also part of Cardiff's sbarc|spark 'eco-system', and is the reason why the building includes both innovation institutes and lettable commercial space: sbarc|spark can provide a locally-accessible means for SMEs to continue their digital transformation journey beyond Explore.Emerge: this is highly compatible with the University's research and impact mission, to raise awareness of next-generation and generation-after-next approaches and technologies, while identifying pathways to their early adoption.

卡迪夫 Hartree Spoke 将建立在以卡迪夫大学为中心的充满活力的人工智能、数据科学和高性能计算研究和创新社区的基础上，可直接接触卡迪夫首都地区和西网关中小企业集群，拥有丰富的第一手经验。在协作环境中创新运行影响力主导的研究和开发，凭借强大的行业关系和久经考验的中小企业参与方法，我们的 Spoke 将能够利用大学最近对其“创新”的重大投资，迅速起步。卡迪夫大学提议的 Spoke 将为卡迪夫首都地区的中小企业提供有针对性的、本地可访问的人工智能、数据科学和高性能计算支持，并将其扩展到西门户地区。项目活动将集中在卡迪夫首府地区（从布里真德到蒙茅斯郡），同时还将覆盖布里斯托尔、切尔滕纳姆和格洛斯特周围西门户的中小企业。The Spoke 将由卡迪夫领导和运营大学。数据和人工智能的变革性影响是该大学研究战略的核心，自 2016 年以来，计算机科学和数学学术人员的人数几乎翻了一番。卡迪夫领导着威尔士超级计算项目，该项目最近投入了大量资金，为 HPC 提供支持。建立新的创新园区 sbarc|spark 大楼于 2022 年 3 月开放，作为园区的“前门”，其中设有 SPARK——世界上第一个社会科学研究园区，以及Innovations@sbarc - 为初创企业、衍生企业和合作伙伴提供的创意空间，我们建议将卡迪夫 Hartree Spoke 置于 sbarc|spark，将其置于大学“创新生态系统”的中心，与主要利益相关者和合作伙伴保持密切联系。我们拥有的设施、人员和现有中小企业联系的独特组合意味着我们可以在 2022 年 1 月 12 日快速启动辐条，我们计划在现有基础上实现快速启动。 Spoke 的计划工作与 HNCDI 计划密切相关：探索：这将是 Spoke 的重点，与中小企业建立联系，了解他们的需求，并开发卡迪夫与 IBM 团队的长期合作记录。通过国际技术联盟计划进行的研究和创新，结合数据创新加速器计划中针对该地区中小企业部门的数据创新的经验，将有助于加速启动“探索”活动：该大学的使命是培养以下方面的技能。数据科学、人工智能和高级计算领域使我们处于有利地位，可以将解释元素与 Spoke 的探索主要活动一起纳入我们将利用 Abacws 的学术教师和专家来提供“解释者”，作为 Spoke 参与的一部分。 Delivery.Excelerate：我们将与 HNCDI 团队密切合作，确定并培养有潜力发展为 Excelerate 活动的参与和项目。我们注意到，这种工作方式也是卡迪夫 sbarc|spark 的一部分。 “生态系统”，这也是该建筑既包含创新机构又包含可出租商业空间的原因：sbarc|spark 可以为中小企业提供一种本地可用的方式，以继续其超越 Explore.Emerge 的数字化转型之旅：这与该大学的研究和影响使命是提高对下一代和下一代方法和技术的认识，同时确定其早期采用的途径。