CLIK Knowledge Transfer

Central Laboratory Innovation and Knowledge Transfer Limited (CLIK) is the wholly-owned technology exploitation company of the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

CLIK has the exclusive rights to the commercial exploitation of the intellectual property of the STFC and operates at the council’s institutes at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire and the Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh. Working closely with the technical inventors, the CLIK team progresses individual projects through various business models to the point of implementation as commercial licenses or spin-out companies.

Since its inception, CLIK has spun out ten companies based on STFC technology and is currently working on spinning out a further five new ventures.

CLIK is also responsible for commercial access to STFC facilities and services and, as such, has established the first dedicated technical sales and marketing team to be put in place by a research council. This team is now the first point of contact for anyone in industry wanting to explore interactions with the STFC.

For further information please contact Dr Andy Bennett on 01925 603141 or email: technicalsales@stfc.ac.uk.