Knowledge Base

konfer presents grant funding opportunities including funding for collaborative research, Horizon 2020 funding, SBRI funding, cross-territory grant funding and sector-specific challenge funding. konfer uses machine learning to categorise funding to one of the konfer categories.

Collaborative opportunities posted by registered konfer users (universities or businesses). These may be funded collaboration opportunities (if so, this will be indicated in the details of the collaboration).

konfer aggregates data on academic experts from over 150 universities and institutions around the UK including biographies, location and research publications. konfer uses machine learning to identify key areas of expertise for every researcher. konfer search and discovery capabilities will provide you with the details of researchers whose work is most relevant to your area of interest.

We have 154 Universities on konfer. We capture information about universities from a broad range of sources.

We have 72,796 businesses on konfer, selected on industry activities, public domain data in relation to research activities and other criteria with the intetion of presenting companies that are engaged in research and innovation and are likely to benefit from opportunities in relation to innovation grant funding and/or university collaboration. 

Research Centres are specific divisions of a university with advanced expertise, research capabilities and equipment in specialised areas of interest.

Over 38,000 patents are listed in konfer and attached to business profiles. Patent details can also be searched using patent titles and abstracts.