This set of pages contains the content of the Knowledge Transfer Network for Industrial Mathematics Annual Report for 2007 - 2008.

Printed copies of the Annual Report are available on request from Gillian Hoyle. If you wish to download the Annual Report as pdf document, click here.

Introduction

The Industrial Mathematics Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) is boosting dramatically the innovation performance of UK businesses through the wider use of mathematics.

Mathematical modelling, simulation and analysis are indispensable tools for accelerating business innovation. They bring fresh approaches to problems in design, product and service development, operations and strategy. Their power is enhanced by the unparalleled versatility of mathematical thinking, which allows us to address challenges across all business sectors and across all aspects of company activity.

Our breadth of coverage unlocks a further competitive advantage for our industrial partners, through the ability to transfer and adapt techniques that underpin similar problems in other areas of application. We put an emphasis on bringing fresh thinking to difficult problems and delivering results in ways that can be rapidly embedded in a corporate environment.

The Industrial Mathematics KTN has core funding from the Technology Strategy Board and is managed by the Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering, the UK's leading organisation operating at the interface between business and the mathematical science base.

This Annual Report is a reflection of some of our activities undertaken over the last year, and a look forward to ways that you can engage with the Industrial Mathematics KTN. We hope that you will be inspired to contact us.