Overview
The Technology Transfer Hub creates value for the UK economy by enabling technology transfer and commercialisation opportunities to grow from fusion into global markets.
It has three aims:
- Transfer technology from fusion into other sectors.
- Transfer technology developed by the UKAEA to the wider fusion market.
- Bring expertise and solutions from other sectors into fusion.
To achieve these objectives, the Technology Transfer Hub:
- nurtures and accelerates innovations from the fusion programme that will demonstrate economic and scientific impact
- accelerates connections between research, commercial, and entrepreneurial communities and other hubs, and
- builds partnerships and mechanisms to bridge any gaps in the pipeline from ideation to commercialisation
Why UKAEA is well placed
UKAEA works on enabling technologies that will be necessary to build a fusion power plant. This provides opportunities to identify cross over benefits with other sectors and to commercialise technologies to support the delivery of commercial fusion power.
As the UK’s national fusion laboratory, UKAEA, is perfectly placed to create networks and bring industry and academia together to help accelerate new ideas and support the creation of a fusion supply chain.
Goals
Our goals are designed to guide the organisation towards the fulfilment of our innovation mission – “to establish UKAEA as a global hub of innovation excellence for and beyond fusion”. Two major strategic goals have been set.
Strategic goal 1. Build world-class innovation
We strive to become a renowned innovation engine and a globally recognised hub of innovation for fusion and beyond. Working with organisations, we aim to embrace high risk, enhance innovation capabilities and inspire groundbreaking novel ideas and technologies. We want to turn Culham Campus into a world-class innovation ecosystem that accelerates UKAEA’s ultimate mission to lead the delivery of sustainable fusion energy. Simultaneously, we will seek and develop ideas that offer opportunities for technology transfer.
Strategic goal 2. Deliver world-class impact
We aim to demonstrate that public funding can deliver substantial returns by supporting research and development for sustainable fusion energy. Other benefits include:
- driving economic growth
- industry advancement
- creating job opportunities
- development of new businesses
- achieving significant scientific and societal impacts both nationally and globally
It provides the necessary mechanisms to capitalise on technology transfer opportunities from fusion to a wide range of industries, both in the UK and internationally.
Benefits
The benefits of the Technology Transfer Hub include:
- demonstrating the near-term benefits of the fusion programme through impact into the wider economy, supporting job growth and increased opportunities for UK industry through access to fusion knowledge assets
- helping other sectors find solutions to their challenges through technology transfer, creating positive scientific, environmental, economic and social impacts through this flow of innovation
- accelerating the commercialisation of fusion energy through learning from other sectors identified through the network established to accelerate technology transfer
- supporting the creation of a fusion supply chain ready to deliver commercial fusion power through the commercialisation of fusion technologies
What we offer
Technologies / patents available for licensing
Our decades of dedicated research and development has created a substantial portfolio of intellectual property. It includes a diverse array of innovative technologies, methodologies and inventions that have demonstrated remarkable success in the field of fusion energy. These solutions are adaptable across various industries and sectors, as evidenced by our successful implementations in numerous cases.
A few examples of areas of technologies /patents available for licensing include:
- robotics and remote handling
- materials design, evaluation and modelling
- multi-load modelling
- thermal management
- instrumentation and control
- specialist manufacturing methods
- monitoring, tracking, and optimisation of computer simulations
Contact us to know more about our current available technologies for licensing.
Secondments opportunities
The Technology Transfer Hub would like to talk to organisations interested in working with us to identify technology transfer opportunities and the routes to generate the most impact. One route would be through inward or outward secondments to work with diverse expertise to support the assessment of the technologies.
Contact us to know more about current opportunities.
Open-source software
Go to the public UKAEA open-source software repositories:
Case study
Read our case study about how we worked with International Fire Consulting highlighting the power of technology to make large‑scale simulations more environmentally friendly.
Simvue enhances IFC’s Fire Safety Simulations with Real-Time Tracking
UKAEA’s Simvue helped International Fire Consultancy cut fire simulation costs, time and carbon footprint by 50%, boosting efficiency, sustainability and data insight.
News
Read the latest technology transfer news.
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Fusion energy spinout targets next-generation microwaves
MuWave, a spinout company from UKAEA, has secured funding to develop high-power microwave technology, which is essential for commercial fusion energy.
Contact information
Contact us if you are:
- a private company interested in learning more about our IP assets or in a collaboration or if you think your technology might be used in fusion
- someone with ideas on how to apply our technologies to different sectors and interested in a collaboration
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