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Professor Andrew Livingston and Professor Kang Li

For enterprising staff2

Find new ways to turn your research into benefits for society, with our support.

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Apply my research to industry


Industrial research partnerships
Opportunities to address industry challenges and make a real-world impact by working in partnership with businesses, with guidance from our team.

CommercialisationSupport to commercialise intellectual property generated by your research.

Support, from brief to billing, whatever the size or type of project. 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Consultants will negotiate the price, scope and a secure contract – plus we’ll provide indemnity insurance.

Internal funding
Opportunities to gain funding for technology development and research that makes an economic or societal impact.

Launch a startup


Mentoring
The 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Venture Mentoring Service, an advisory service for academic and student startups from mentors ready to share their wealth of contacts and entrepreneurship experience.

and Accelerator programmes for early-career researchers, with resources and training to help turn ideas arising from research into businesses.

Office and state-of-the-art laboratory space for startups.

Prototyping facilities
The Advanced HackSpace, a unique community of makers, hackers, inventors and entrepreneurs, supported by experts and an extensive suite of prototyping equipment.

Manage a project


Research project management
Support for those leading EU Horizon 2020 or government funded projects. The Programme Managment Office helps secure funding, handle budgets and resources and then promote your outcome through websites and events.

VenturesSupport to launch new academic-led ventures, from the Academic and Technology Ventures team.