Ploughshare Launches Defence and Innovation Industry Alliance

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Unlocking Defence and Dual-Use IP to Drive UK Strategic Advantage and Economic Growth

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The Strategic Defence Review (SDR) 2025: Innovation is no longer optional

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Ploughshare’s 2024 in Review: Driving Innovation for a Better Future

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Exciting News: Ploughshare Updates Equity Model for Spin-outs

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Going Beyond the Buzzword: It’s Time to Rethink Innovation

Scaling innovation for society and the environment.

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Enabling Government IP to go Further

We ensure UK government innovations deliver real prosperity to the economy, our society, people’s lives, and the environment.

What we do
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Who we are

Transforming world-class ideas into world-changing reality 

Ploughshare are a pioneering company which transforms early-stage innovations into impactful spin-outs and licensed technologies to deliver economic growth and societal impact.

With over 20 years of experience in technology transfer and commercialisation, we combine deep domain insight with commercial expertise to scale effectively, measure success confidently, and activate new, diversified revenue streams.

ABOUT US

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Our clients and partners

A strategic connector for growth

We work across a range of key sectors, enabling you to tap into both our domain-specific expertise and our expansive ecosystem of investors, founders, SMEs, academics, and government and industry bodies.

We connect the public and private sectors to bring new cutting-edge innovations to the market. We work end-to-end, identifying IP with untapped potential from our partners, and driving these innovations forwards into licensing deals or spin-out companies.

WHO WE WORK WITH

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End-to-end expertise

World-changing ingenuity doesn’t reach the market on its own – it takes deep expertise to navigate complexity and unlock its potential.

We act as a strategic partner – supporting our clients at every stage through our Discover, Liberate and Scale Framework.

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Ploughshare Impact Report 2024

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Our Spin-outs and Licensees

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Clearwater Hydroacoustics

Clearwater Hydroacoustics was set up in July 2019 to take over the technology of a previous sp...
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Presymptom

Founded as a spin-out company in 2019, the technology was originally developed by the Defence ...
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P2i

P2i Ltd was the first spin-out of the DSTL in 2005. P2i’s technology is a novel plasma-surface...

We are results-orientated

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Technologies to market

£ 126 m

Gross value added (GVA)

£ 17.1 m

Commercial Income

£ 163 m+

In exports

16

Spin-out companies created to date

500

Jobs created

£ 180 m+

Private equity investment in MOD innovation

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