Success stories

The University of Portsmouth has a long tradition of helping UK business succeed and in the process enabling those businesses to create new jobs, wealth and prosperity for all. During these challenging economic times Portsmouth has used its research expertise and knowledge to help the business community to respond positively to opportunities and chart a path to growth.

The University takes this role very seriously and has made changes that enable it to respond to the needs of the business community. It created a one-stop shop for business services from the University, making it easy for business to gain access to the best that the University has to offer. Whether it's our research expertise, the knowledge and knowhow of our staff, or a graduate who will add real value to their business

In the last twelve months the University has:

• Worked with 600 businesses of all sizes, helping these businesses develop new products and services and improve their competitiveness.
• Conducted £5 million collaborative research and consultancy with business and in the process helped create over 150 new jobs within the business community.
• Used its world-class facilities and labs to help business customers to test, develop prototypes and build new solutions.
• Provided employers with over £6.4million worth of professional development courses, ensuring that the workforce is equipped to meet the needs of the future.
• Offered direct business advice and support to over 500 small and medium sized companies.

The University has a strong track record in delivering new knowledge into businesses, working with business to win over £5 million funding in recent years and in the process picking up a national award in 2010 from the Technology Strategy Board for the Best KTP in the South East of England.

Portsmouth is committed to giving our graduates the important employability skills that business demands. Our Department of Employability offers a specialist in-house recruitment service that works with employers to give our students valuable work experience and volunteering opportunities as well as placing our graduates into jobs, particularly with small to mediums sized companies. Since 2006, the team has assisted over 1,000 students and graduates into a range of roles and is currently delivering an internship programme aimed specifically at helping our graduates work with growth business in our city and region. 

The University is committed to the renaissance of Portsmouth and the wider region and works with a broad range of business, community and third sector partners to support enterprise led regeneration, securing over £2.3m of new funding since 2006 for this purpose. The University works with Business Link, the Federation of Small Businesses and the CBI to deliver a range of Business Breakfast briefings and other events aimed at helping the business community gain access to the best that the University has to offer.offered business advice and support to over 400 small and medium sized companies.

Sources: Higher Education Business Community Interaction (HEBCI) Survey (as submitted 2010-2011 return), Maximizer CRM system (Purple Door), Internal KTP tracking audit (Purple Door) and figures provided by Purple Door Recruitment.