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Academia

Commercialised research, funded delivery plans and industry partnerships for universities and incubators.

Sector

Universities generate applied research in sport and health that rarely reaches a market. The value is real and mostly stranded. We build the route out: delivery plans that unlock funding, partner networks that give the research an industry customer, and commercial framing that makes an academic asset legible to a buyer.

Our work with Leeds Beckett University on the business delivery plan for its Sports and Health Technology Incubator is the clearest example. With Northumbria University's Newcastle campus we work on the other side of the same problem: monetising services, turning facilities and expertise into packaged, sellable offerings that generate income.

Return: a fundable roadmap that turns research strength into industry revenue.
The return

Three outcomes in academia.

Funding

Release capital

Business delivery plans and cases built to release funding and satisfy investment committees.

Revenue

Monetise services

Turning campus facilities, services and expertise into packaged, sellable offerings, as with Northumbria University's Newcastle campus.

Partnerships

Find the customer

Industry networks and commercial framing that give research and services a route to a paying customer.

Selected work: Leeds Beckett University · Northumbria University (Newcastle)

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