STFC Innovations Ltd

STFC Innovations Ltd (formally known as CLIK) is the wholly-owned technology exploitation company of the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

STFC Innovations Ltd 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 STFC Innovations Ltd team progresses individual projects through various business models to the point of implementation as commercial licenses or spin-out companies.

Since its inception, STFC Innovations Ltd has spun out ten companies based on STFC technology and is currently working on spinning out a further five new ventures. Click here for further information.

STFC Innovations Ltd 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.

Below are a number of fact sheets on key STFC facilities that can be accessed via STFC Innovations.

• e-Science - Scientific collaboration on a global scale
• Micro and Nano Technology Centre - Small-scale science with large-scale impact
• Synchrotron Light Sources - Shining a bright light on science
• The National Centre for Electron - Spectroscopy and surface analysis
• The Medium Energy Ion - Scattering facility investing the surface of materials

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