Imperial Innovations

Imperial Innovations is one of the UK's leading technology transfer and commercialisation companies. The company was founded in 1986 and its ordinary shares admitted to trading on the Alternative Investment Market of London Stock Exchange plc in July 2006, raising £25 million at an offer price of 365p and £1 million by means of a public offer.

The company’s integrated approach encompasses the identification of ideas, protection of intellectual property, development and licensing of technology and formation, incubation and investment in technology businesses. A wide range of technologies are commercialised within the areas of healthcare, energy, environment and emerging technology trends.

Sources of Technology

In April 2005 Imperial Innovations entered into a 15-year agreement with Imperial College London to commercialise technology derived from research at Imperial. Imperial Innovations also commercialises technologies originating from outside Imperial College through incubation contracts with the Carbon Trust and Waste & Resources Action Programme and has commercialisation contracts with a number of multinational corporations including BAE Systems.

Spin-out companies

Imperial Innovations has established equity holdings in approximately 70 companies, the majority of which are spin-outs arising from technologies developed at Imperial College, and a high proportion of which are biotech or medical devices firms.

Intellectual property

In 2006 Imperial Innovations filed 61 patents, up from 47 in 2005. By the end of 2006 it managed more than 275 patent families.

External links

* [http://www.imperialinnovations.co.uk/ Imperial Innovations website]