Innovation driven by Knowledge Exchange
Through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) and SMART Partnerships, Cardiff Metropolitan University collaborates directly with businesses to embed academic expertise, accelerate innovation, and drive strategic change. These projects help companies like Seven Oaks Modular, Zest, and Window Cleaning Warehouse gain a competitive edge by developing new products, streamlining operations, and building long-term research capabilities.
Company partner: Seven Oaks Modular (SO Modular) - a timber-frame modular manufacturer delivering Design, Supply and Erect.
Sector: Construction
Innovation via the KTP: New environmentally friendly, sustainable wall panels developed. Improvements in efficiencies, the cost and quality of SO Modular products.
Seven Oaks Modular:
Company Partner: Zest Outdoor Living, part of P & A Group of Companies
Sector: Garden furniture manufacturer with a focus on environmental sustainability
Innovation via both projects: New to market, innovative product conceptualisation, design and launch. Gave Zest the expertise and confidence to become market leader in the garden products sector.
Zest:
Company Partner: Window Cleaning Warehouse (WCW)
Sector: Supplier, innovator and manufacturer of a large range of window cleaning systems and kits globally
Innovation via two KTPs: KTP 1 – implementation and embedding of sector innovative, end user-led product design capability within WCW. The video highlights how WCW benefitted from the initial KTP. KTP 2 – support company transition to becoming an Internet of Things hardware / software service provider within the cleaning industry to allow companies to adopt industry 4.0 infrastructures.
Window Cleaning Warehouse:
Company Partner: Yard (part of Koios Consulting)
Sector: Digital data analytics, customer insights, profiling and data consolidation services.
Innovation via two KTPs: KTP 1 - Predictive attribution modelling in machine learning and statistical methods to become a market leader. KTP 2 – Development of neural network-based method to semantically analyse website content then used as a basis for optimising organic search visibility.
Yard:
Company Partner: Agile Kinetic
Sector: Software company specialising in use of artificial intelligence to digitise movement using accessible devices.
Innovation via the Smart Partnership: Use of AI to gain insight from movement for treatment of medical and health conditions on mobile devices.
Agile:
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