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The Commercialisation Journey

Merging talented minds with enterprise and creating opportunities for investors.

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Leading investors back Northern Gritstone with new Β£50 million fundraise

Northern Gritstone has announced its latest fundraise of Β£50 million from leading institutional investors bringing its total permanent capital to Β£362 million.

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University Spinouts: The Sheffield Difference

Sheffield is creating a strong future for University spinouts. With our growing investor network, improving infrastructure and rich talent pool, discover how we are laying the foundations for the next generation of research-driven innovators to thrive.

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The Commercialisation Journey

The Commercialisation Journey is the University of Sheffield's structured programme that helps innovators explore the commercial potential of their research with a view to creating spinouts or licences.

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Our offer

The Commercialisation Journey offers a supportive and transparent package for commercialising research, including generous spinout equity and licence royalty terms.

Support and rewards

We take research from the lab to the world stage

Professor ConchΓΊr Γ“ BrΓ‘daigh speaks to a range of company founders about their unique pathways to commercialisation in healthcare, food production, AI and manufacturing.

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Commercialisation at Sheffield

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Become a Northern Triangle mentor

The Northern Triangle Mentor Programme is a new initiative to support commercialisation opportunities and early-stage spinouts from the universities of Sheffield, Leeds, and Manchester.

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Current opportunities

View a selection of active opportunities on the Commercialisation Journey.

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Meet our spinouts and founders

We're fostering a vibrant community of spinout founders maximising the real-world benefits of research through their mission-driven companies.

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Non-University IP

The Commercialisation Journey supports academic staff, research staff and PhD students and the intellectual property they develop on behalf of the University.

Aspiring undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurs with their own business ideas are ably supported by the University’s β€œEmerge” programme. Similarly staff and postgraduates with ideas based on non-University intellectual property.

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