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Make a step change in your business by taking advantage of our unrivalled research capability, wealth of industry experience and wide range of business services and facilities.

How we can help you

We can help you to:

Our partnership with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has enabled it to make efficiency savings without affecting performance — RNLI Knowledge Transfer Partnership

find innovative solutions to business challenges to give you a competitive advantage, through consultancy or collaboration

test new technologies using our cutting edge facilities

access start-up business support to get your new high-tech enterprise off the ground

commercialise the University's innovations through a licensing agreement

find talented graduates and students through recruitment and student placements

unlock funding for research by accessing grants only available through a university collaboration – for example from Innovate UK (formerly the Technology Strategy Board) and the European Commission. Research and development activity could also qualify your business for tax relief

Our track record

Forty per cent of our research activities involve industry collaboration

Forty per cent of our research activities involve industry collaboration

We have taken our innovations to market through the creation spin-out companies since 2000, three of which have been floated on the stock market
We are recognised as one of the leading UK research universities. The latest national assessment of research (Research Excellence Framework 2014) rated over 97 per cent of the University’s research environment as world-leading and internationally excellent
We are a founding member of SETsquared, ranked Number One University Business Incubator in the world by UBI Global
We are ranked in Europe’s top 100 most innovative universities by Thomson Reuters. [Ranked 77th]
Winner of THE (Times Higher Education) Leadership & Management Awards Knowledge Exchange/Transfer Initiative of the Year 2016 for our SETsquared ICURe Programme
Placed 41 in the world for high quality research in Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars
We are consistently ranked as the Number One university in the UK for consultancy Income by HEBCIS

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