Innovation and Enterprise

Students, Researchers and Staff
Our impact strategy follows our mission statement: we apply the transformative power of physics through translation of our research and expertise to create products, services and companies that meet societal and business needs, and through embedding innovation and entrepreneurship into our teaching and training programmes.

Over the last few years we have dramatically increased the pace of innovation as evidenced by the production of inventions, patents, licence deals and spinout companies and creating a Entrepreneurship for Physicists course for our students.

We are working on technology that is changing society inc. quantum technology, bio imaging, satellite instrumentation, AI, fusion and solar energy, superconductivity, climate models, precision metrology and more.

  • Created 18 spinout companies & supported student and alumni startups
  • 180+ inventions patented & licensed 70+ inventions to industry
  • Carried out 100+ academic consulting projects
  • Developed Entrepreneurship training with the Business School

When inventing hardware or software, or working with companies, we provide support with Intellectual Property, Innovation Funds, Confidentiality, Conflicts of Interest, Collaboration Agreements and provide Enterprise Training. Support is available to all undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as post-docs, researchers, academics and support staff.

For examples of how we have enabled a positive impact on society, see our Research In Action.

If you have any questions please contact the Innovation and Enterprise Manager, Dr Phillip Tait

Spin Out Equity Rule Change - 2021
The University has implemented a new equity sharing policy to enable new spinouts to become faster, easier and more transparent. The policy sets the founding equity share in spinout companies at 80% for founder researchers and 20% for the University in nearly all cases. Please see the equity sharing Q&A(link is external) for further information.

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