Licensing opportunities

All technologies listed below are currently available for licensing. To discuss further opportunities contact Elizabeth Bain.

Detectors and instrumentation
Much of STFC's research is concerned with high energy and particle physics, requiring particle, or radiation, detectors. Such instrumentation is highly applicable to areas as diverse as environmental sensing, pharmaceutical development and security...

Diagnostics and imaging
Many of the detectors and imaging devices invented as a course of STFC activities are highly applicable to medical diagnostics, imaging, and point of care testing...

IT and communications
Computational science and engineering is a major aspect of STFC activities. Advances in data communications can have far reaching impact, from automotive manufacturing to entertainment development...

Materials science
Many of STFC's facilities and equipment require highly specific and challenging operating conditions. This has led to innovative solutions for the treatment of materials and chemicals...

Mechanics and manufacturing
STFC's research and activities in multi-disciplinary areas has led to innovations in many mechanical systems and processes. These range from sub-micron scale processes, to technologies suitable for sub-critical nuclear reactors...