Industries our spin outs work in

Spin outs

16Spin outscreated

164Jobs created

Employees educated from degree to PHD

From grants£4.7 million

From investment£53.6 million

£59+million

Funding raised

Jobs at PHD level

27%

87%

Research facilitiesChemical &

pharmaceutical Healthcare Transport

EnergyManufacturing

& materials Defence & security Aerospace

INNOVATION AND IMPACT Exploiting our research

STFC commercialises promising technologies from its research that have the potential to boost the UK economy

STFC licenses out technologies and intellectual property into existing companies in well-established markets and creates spin out companies for technologies which need further intensive R&D or have multiple applications

Our spin outs work across multiple market sectors including:

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of spin outs have aproduct on the market75%

Sources: STFC Spin Out and IP Audit, 2014

Spin out export markets

USA

Europe

Singapore

South Korea

Japan

China

Cobalt Light Systems has built an innovative, high-growth business on fundamental science

developed at STFC. Cobalt’s airport security scanners are helping to improve

the safety of air travel for passengers across the globe.

Paul Loeffen, STFC spin out

SubTeraNDT is using technology developed for

Space to detect potential failure of pipelines in the oil and gas industry – helping our customers save money

and the environment. Chris Mann, STFC IP licensee

The XChip technology, licensed from STFC, has been a

key component in the Sens-Tech product range for the last decade and

is utilised in detectors for medical, industrial and scientific imaging.

Steve Jaye, STFC IP licensee

Patents and licences

135 Patent families created

Comments

37 Licences