Easy access to expertise that could transform your business
Imperial can help you transform your business and gain a competitive edge through a range of activities, including research partnerships, technology licensing, and corporate membership, to name just some examples. To benefit from the acumen and insights of our world top-ten university, the best starting point is to contact the Enterprise team: we’ll help you find the best ways to work with Imperial’s community of innovators.
I would, however, like to draw your special attention this month to one key part of our offer, which provides a very efficient way to access the College’s expertise and facilities, and which not all our contacts know about.
Our consultancy arm,Imperial Consultants, helps large and small organisations commission projects including reports, training, testing and advisory roles. With a strong commercial understanding, the Imperial Consultants team facilitates hundreds of projects every year.
Some recent examples help illustrate how consultancy could support your business objectives:
Demonstrating the value of a technology. A report for SSE Renewables by Professor Goran Strbac and colleagues has revealed for the first time that an energy storage technology, long-duration pumped hydro storage, could reduce the cost of delivering a net zero energy system by up to £690 million. This has helped SSE Renewables and the Scottish Government, which are seeking investment in the technology, to demonstrate its economic value.
Connecting with a user base. An eight-part webinar series for Samsung on ultrasound for obstetrics and gynaecology, featuring Imperial’s Professor Christoph Lees, has given the company a chance to communicate with medical professionals such as obstetricians and radiographers from an astonishing 92 different countries.
Finding the right policy. Imperial’s Environmental Research Group made headlines with its latest report for the Greater London Authority on air pollution, predicting that the Mayor of London’s policies will increase the life expectancy of a child born in 2013 by six months.
Head to the Imperial Consultants website to learn more about consultancy. For more info on our wider offer for business, including consultancy, you can contact us as always atenterprise@imperial.ac.uk.
Startup Arborea will use a £3.6 million investment to move to Portugal to scale its BioSolar Leaf technology, which uses microscopic plants grown on panels to produce commercial-grade food ingredients and sequester carbon dioxide.
Three life sciences startups have graduated from Imperial’s White City Incubator into spaces of their own. All have remained in the White City area of London and are contributing to the area’s growth as a hub for deep science innovation.
Universities can help make the UK a world-leader in science and innovation and build something “more than a pale imitation of Silicon Valley,” said Imperial’s President, Professor Alice Gast, writing in the Financial Times.
The Global Challenge Lab, a new student entrepreneurship programme run by Imperial and Tsinghua University’s x-lab in Beijing, has focused on finding ways to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Imperial and Twig Education have developed digital training products for science education including Reach Out CPD, a free tool to support the professional development of primary school teachers. Twig’s acquisition by a US company will give the work a wider reach.
UK Research & Innovation, the public body that funds much of the UK’s university research, has published a new open access policy requiring most research to be accessible to the public at no charge. Imperial hosted a BEIS roundtable marking its launch.
MedTech SuperConnector, an Imperial-led accelerator programme that helps empower researchers at eight London institutions to turn research into innovative medical technologies, will soon launch a new cohort.
Imperial has launched a new Global Development Hub that aims to maximise the impact of its research, education, and innovation on meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It will bring together researchers with NGOs and businesses.
A study sampling the environment at four major railway stations in England has found no traces of the virus which causes COVID-19. The research was commissioned from academics by Network Rail via Imperial Projects.
The Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, Amanda Solloway MP, has visited the White City Campus to see first-hand how the innovation district is flourishing. She was shown around facilities such as the Incubator and the Advanced Hackspace.
Watch Imperial Enterprise Lab’s Summer Accelerator 2021 Final as seven teams pitch their brand new innovations to a panel of expert judges for the chance to win £5,000.
A cell therapy that harnesses one of the body's rarest immune cells – the natural killer T cell – could transform the treatment of blood cancers and other diseases.
