Private Sector

This report focuses on equity investment into UK university spin-outs, including the source of invesment over time (2011-2019) and an equity ranking by UK regional geography. Over 800 spin-outs were included from Beauhursts database of tracked companies. The report is available to download from the Beauhurst or Parkwalk websites. 

https://www.beauhurst.com/research/spinouts-investment-report/ 

https://parkwalkadvisors.com/ 

Case Study from the University of Edinburgh: Rolling the dice on new creative endeavours had surprising results for Dr Gianluca Raccagni’s research and teaching.costly mistakes. Analysts expect the global tabletop games market will be worth more than $12 billion by 2023. Key to this boom, the growing popularity of tabletop strategy games has seen hundreds of new game clubs open across the UK during the past five years.

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Case Study from the University of Edinburgh: Dr Faye Wade donned a hard hat and high-vis jacket to help the construction industry utilise new technologies to avoid costly mistakes. Sharing jokes with construction workers over fish and chips at a sewage works on the west coast of Scotland is not Dr Faye Wade’s typical working day. But she says her research with one of the UK’s largest construction companies, Galliford Try, has been a springboard for her career.

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Case Study from the University of Edinburgh: Collaborating on a new desktop wellness app gave Dr Kasia Banas a valuable outlet to positively impact thousands of workers’ health and wellbeing. The $4.2 trillion US dollar global wellness industry encompasses everything from personal care to nutrition and fitness.

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Case Study from the University of Nottingham: Professors Paul Grainge and Cathy Johnson are on a mission to help Nottingham’s small businesses community reach new audiences. Today’s fragmented media landscape gives consumers a seemingly endless choice about what, when, and how they watch, read and listen to content.

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Case Study from the University of Nottingham: Psychology experts from The University of Nottingham worked with one midlands company find out. Price often plays a significant role in our purchasing decisions. We also buy things because we associate them with positive qualities, such as desirability and value. But have you ever stopped to think why we make these associations?

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Case Study from the University of Edinburgh: An innovative project between Edinburgh researchers and a fintech start-up hopes to democratise wealth management. From buying a home to saving for retirement, financial decisions shape our lives. However, the complexity of money matters, such as pensions and investments, can make them challenging to understand. Meanwhile, access to personalised advice is still only available to affluent individuals with the means to pay for it.

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Case Study from Cardiff University: Dr Phil Morgan says a three-year secondment with Airbus, is a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to influence the next generation of human-centric industrial cyber defences. Dr Phil Morgan, an Associate Professor at Cardiff University, believes robust cybersecurity is critical in industries such as aerospace.

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Case Study from the University of Edinburgh: A phone call to the Swedish giant laid the foundations for a project which could make manufacturing and construction significantly more climate change-friendly, says Dr Kathi Kaesehage. The world’s population is expected to throw away more than 6 million tonnes of waste each day by 2025.

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Case Study from the Open University:  An interdisciplinary industry partnership helped philosopher, Mark Addis redefine the construction industry’s understanding of expertise. It also set his career in a newdirection.

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