Innovation in collaboration with IGC

Our collaborative approach leverages our embedded expertise in drug discovery and external partnerships to maximise translation of our research towards healthcare impact.

Benefits of collaboration 

Enhance your R&D and innovation capability in collaboration with us, to help build and maintain competitive advantage, develop new products or processes, or exploit new market opportunities. 

We make it easy for you 

Edinburgh Innovations is the University of Edinburgh’s commercialisation service. We provide dedicated support for you, to make collaboration straightforward and as beneficial as possible. Our Business Development Manager will be on hand to facilitate your project and guide you through the process to meet your needs, saving valuable time and resources. We work with companies across many different sectors and so can identify and advise on the management and delivery of a particular project according to each organisation’s timescales and requirements. 

To discuss opportunities  

Dr Sarah Trewick , Business Development Manager Edinburgh Innovations

Sarah.Trewick@ei.ed.ac.uk  

How you can engage with us 

There are many ways organisations can engage with our multi-disciplinary researchers at the IGC including:  

  1. Collaborative partnership: If you need to tackle particular challenge we can offer a bespoke research programme designed specifically around your requirements and drawing on multi-disciplinary research expertise.  

  1. Consultancy: Our consultancy service gives you easy access to world-class experts The IGC is host to an extensive range of expertise, facilities and services that are available to companies and organisations on a consultancy basis as flexible, high value resource. Our academic consultants can provide flexible, short or long term expertise to help solve challenges facing private and public sector organisations. 

  1. Licensing: A licensing agreement with the IGC enables your business to translate cutting-edge research and technology into profitable new products, processes and services. There are various ways to access the latest technologies, which your Business Development Manager can advise on and manage. 

  1. Studentships and Secondments: We can arrange industry sponsored PhD studentships and secondments. 

To explore more ways to engage with us: 

Edinburgh Innovations