Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) is Europe's leading programme for helping businesses to improve their competitiveness and productivity through better use of knowledge, technology and skills within the UK knowledge base.The programme builds relationships between a company and an academic institution ('knowledge base partner'), which facilitates the transfer of knowledge, technology and skills to which the 'company partner' currently has no access. Each partnership employs one or more recently qualified people (known as 'associates') to work in a company on a project of strategic importance to the business, while being supervised by the knowledge base partner. In this session, we will explore how KTPs facilitate the transfer of knowledge through joint supervision of projects involving a company and an academic institution. We will also discover how KTPs further increase the interaction between businesses and academic institutions, and awareness of the contribution academia can make to business development and growth.