Research & Innovation Services

Meet the IP & Commercialisation team

The IP & Commercialisation team is a division of the Innovation, Enterprise & Economic Development group in the University’s Research & Innovation Services Directorate. This team are responsible for working with researchers to identify, evaluate, protect and transfer  innovation outside the University to generate economic impact.

We are a group of experienced professionals tasked to work with researchers from all disciplines across the four Colleges to do the following:

1. Identify and Evaluate innovation opportunities that have the potential to create economic impact
2. Advise and Support staff to determine impact pathways for their research via innovation & enterprise
3. Protect innovations by designing and implementing strategies to protect intellectual property
4. Opportunity De-risking by evaluating an innovation opportunity’s potential for licensing, spin-out, or a social enterprise and ensuring the criteria needed for these routes are met
5. Secure De-risking Grants by supporting the process of translating a research output into an innovation opportunity for licensing, spin-out, or social enterprise
6. Market Opportunities to third parties (licensees, investors and funders) and broker meetings
7. Negotiate terms of agreements for innovation & enterprise, including licences, investment, co-development contracts 

It is never too early to approach the IP & Commercialisation team to discuss your innovation to impact journey. You could be at the research grant application stage where you are seeking funding to develop promising ideas, or you could have demonstrated your innovation's market potential and need to protect it prior to publication. We are here to help and advise whatever stage you are at.

College Innovation Teams

The IP & Commercialisation team works in collaboration with College Innovation teams. Contact details for Innovation teams at each of the University’s colleges can be found below.