It is a Czech adaptation of the UK scheme Knowledge Transfer Partnership. The scheme was piloted in Czechia as part of the Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovation 2007-2013. The objective of the KTP is to strengthen cooperation between academia and industry, to improve/increase number of linkages between academia and industry and to motivate universities to beccome more open to the needs of industry.
The programme stimulates transfer of knowledge by supporting post-graduates and post-doc researchers work in companies while being employed by the university and supervised by university experts.
The pilot scheme has been then developed into a full national programme funded by ERDF programme OP Enterprise and Innovation for Competitivness 2014-2020. It is now linked to the National RIS3 specialisation domains (though they are rather broad anyhow). The KTP has been developed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, its part dealing with the operational programme strategy, while it is implemented by the implementation department and administered by the Agency for Enterprise and Innovation which is subordinated to (and established by) the Ministry in order to implement Operational programme Enterprise and Innovation for Competitiveness (OP EIC).