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Ploughshare Impact Report 2024

An economic and wider assessment of Ploughshare's activities. The report covered 64 companies over almost two decades.

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Collaborate to Innovate: A Call to Arms for Industry and Government

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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.

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Accelerating Green Technologies

Learn more about the role of AI and the strategic importance of government software research and development.

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Ploughshare Impact Report 2024

An economic and wider assessment of Ploughshare’s activities.

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Each a small step for humanity

A gateway to world-class IP, ready to license.

We have unique access to innovations created by leading scientists and engineers from laboratories across the UK Ministry of Defence and wider government. Together with our expertise, connections, and support, we will help you to take advantage of these proven innovations to give your products and services a competitive advantage.

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Countermeasures, Detection and Warning Systems, Ground, Aerial and Naval Vehicles, Passive Counter-UAS Systems, Unmanned/Autonomous Vehicals

Passively detect unmanned air systems with high accuracy and low cost

A drone in a busy urban city environment

Passively detect unmanned air systems with high accuracy and low cost

Control, Measuring and Testing Systems, Energetics, Safety and Security

Accurately measure blast and fragment impulse pressure over time

CBRN, Control, Measuring and Testing Systems, Radiation Monitoring, Safety and Security

Detect radiation in the air with higher sensitivity and reduced background noise

Detect radiation in the air with higher sensitivity and reduced background noise

Armoured Vehicles, Ground, Aerial and Naval Vehicles

Super Bainite Armour Steel

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Collaborate to Innovate: A Call to Arms for Industry and Government

By Kalyan Sarma, VP of Climate, Environment, and Sustainability Commercialisation at Ploughshare, and Maurits van Tol, CEO of Catalyst Te...

Ploughshare Impact Report 2024

DOWNLOAD THE REPORT For nearly 20 years, Ploughshare has been the catalyst that enables UK government intellectual property to go further...

The Strategic Importance of Government Research and Development in Software for Accelerating Green Technologies

By Kalyan Sarma, VP of Climate, Environment, and Sustainability Commercialisation at Ploughshare The rapid advancement of artificial inte...

Unlocking Sustainable Solutions: Collaborative Innovation for Defence and Beyond

By Kalyan Sarma, VP of Climate, Environment, and Sustainability Commercialisation at Ploughshare, and Tom Odell, Chief – Climate Change a...

MOD spin-out Presymptom Health raises £1.5m to develop AI-driven sepsis and infection tests for the NHS

Funding round will help accelerate time to market, with UKCA accreditation of the first product planned for mid-2025. Clinical trials are...

A Mentor’s View: Working with Women in Defence

By Mark Moorton, HR Director at Ploughshare Ploughshare was delighted to be invited and subsequently participate in the Women In Defence ...

Innovation Zero: A short look back, before looking forward

By Kalyan Sarma, VP of Climate, Environment, and Sustainability Commercialisation at Ploughshare It’s been just over two weeks now, and I...

Who we are

We were built to unlock potential

Established in 2005, Ploughshare is wholly-owned by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD).

We have exclusive rights to a unique portfolio of MOD-developed and crown-owned intellectual property, and we exist to transform ideas into commercial opportunities.

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Our Spin-outs and Licensees

Spin-out

Clearwater Hydroacoustics

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

Spin-out

Presymptom

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

Spin-out

P2i

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

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We are results orientated

140 +

Technologies to market

£ 126 m

Gross value added (GVA)

£ 17.1 m

Commercial Income

£ 163 m+

In exports

Spin-out companies created to date

500

Jobs created

£ 180 m+

Private equity investment in MOD innovation

Case studies

From Innovation to Impact

Tarian Technology: Data security meets Cyber Resilience

Ionisation chamber nuclear application (1)

JCS Nuclear Solutions, AWE and Ploughshare

Interview: Dr Phil Glasson, Dstl Senior Scientist

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Ploughshare Impact Report 2024

Collaborate to Innovate: A Call to Arms for Industry and Government

Enabling Government IP to go further

Accelerating Green Technologies

Ploughshare Impact Report 2024

Each a small step for humanity

A gateway to world-class IP, ready to license.

Passively detect unmanned air systems with high accuracy and low cost

Accurately measure blast and fragment impulse pressure over time

Detect radiation in the air with higher sensitivity and reduced background noise

Super Bainite Armour Steel

News and Articles

Featured articles

Other articles

Who we are

We were built to unlock potential

Established in 2005, Ploughshare is wholly-owned by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD).

Our Spin-outs and Licensees

We are results orientated

Technologies to market

Gross value added (GVA)

Commercial Income

In exports

Spin-out companies created to date

Jobs created

Private equity investment in MOD innovation

Case studies

From Innovation to Impact

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