- Commercializing IP: We specialize in transforming IP into new business opportunities while ensuring your ideas are protected and profitable.
- Innovation Champions: We identify, signpost and connect clients with next generation technologies and innovations, helping them evolve and grow.
- Scaling Small Businesses: Our strategies are designed for market entry and long-term success and growth. UI – Ideation to Scale.
- Comprehensive Innovation Support: We work closely with our clients to co-develop strategies, successfully navigating from concept to commercialization.
- Ecosystem Assessment and Planning: We analyze and map regional ecosystems to foster environments that enable businesses to thrive.
- Ecosystem Development: We don’t just assess; we actively develop the platforms and networks necessary for sustained economic growth.
- Innovation Funding: We work with development agencies, venture funds and private investors to bring additional funding streams into new innovation-based growth businesses.
- Design Thinking - Coaching, Training and Capacity Building: our mentoring and organizational development programs are custom designed to improve overall performance, and build future capacity.
UI Connect: Accelerate Your Innovation
- Discover the power of academic collaboration. Connect with leading researchers and institutions to drive growth, innovation, and success for your small business.
- We have a comprehensive platform designed to facilitate seamless collaboration between universities and small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for research and development projects.
- UI-Connect is a one-stop platform that simplifies the process of initiating, managing, and sustaining productive partnerships between academia and industry leaders.
UI Lab to Market:
For Universities:
UI’s Lab to Market university commercialization services are led by a Registered Technology Transfer Professional and UK Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence working closely with our global team. We support:
- University KE & TT Offices in-country and Internationally.
- High Growth potential, technology-led Spinouts
- University clusters. A recent program provided in-market support to eight European universities working together in the US.
- Interim management & expertise for start-ups, spinouts, and University KE & TT offices
- Enterprise Training to PhDs & Early Career staff
- Reviewing and advising on Policy, Process & Procedures for KE / TT
UI Lift
Virtual accelerator (most recent program included companies from Israel, South Africa, USA and Canada)
UI Impact Venture Studio:
Creating and scaling new businesses built on great innovations. UI Impact Venture Studio clients and partners include universities, regional and national development agencies, enterprise hubs, new and tested entrepreneurs, international corporations, and the wider business investment community. Working together, we are helping build new ventures from the initial concept. We focus on developing and scaling sustainable businesses that add value to their communities and help solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Our Impact Venture Studio support services and programming are designed to meet the unique needs of individual sectoral groups. Learn More
UI Southvation
A dedicated platform for attracting and supporting innovation in emerging economies across the southern hemisphere. Programs have a strong focus on the UN’s SDG’s. Our most recent partnered initiative encouraged and supported innovation using indigenous foods. We are currently co-developing an intensive multi-initiative and multi-country development program to support innovation in the bioeconomy. Learn More
UI Design Thinking & Other Bespoke Training:
