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Our aim is to create investment ready technologies, helping to bridge the gap between the laboratory and the market.  We conduct early stage technology development (proof of concept) projects within the Physical Sciences and Engineering domains. Our commercially focused projects use a multidisciplinary team whose aim is to address the key concerns of prospective customers.

Our focus is on ideas originating from academia, although the sources of ideas submitted to us are many and varied and include multinational companies, SMEs, lone inventors and VCs. Areas of particular interest to TfI are: Cleantech; Materials Science; Medical Devices; Information & Communication Technologies.

To turn the concept into an investment ready technology, various activities are undertaken during the project including market evaluation, IP evaluation & protection and technology prototyping. TfI develops chosen concepts, creating new IP, in our laboratories using our own scientists and engineers. Our extended network of expert advisors and partners support these developments and the subsequent sales process.

If required, we then conduct collaborative co-development projects with prospective customers to ensure the technology solution is tailored to their specific application. We then sell or license the proven technology to customers and share any profits from sales with the IP creator.