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

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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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Food security is national security – climate science must be a national science

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Defence has a problem getting hold of what it needs

The key challenges facing defence innovation.

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Reflecting on COP29: The Vital Need for New IP and Technologies

Finding solutions to the challenge of the century.

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Innovation and Research are the Key to a Prosperous Future in the UK

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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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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

Armoured Vehicles, Ceramic Material, Ground, Aerial and Naval Vehicles, Materials Processing and Development, Personal Equipment

Improve material performance with a new lightweight, robust solution

Improve material performance with a new lightweight, robust solution

Detection, Location, Acquisition and Deception, Materials Processing and Development, Object Detection, Remote Sensing, Situational Awareness

Expand situational awareness for marine vessels

COTS maritime radar systems. Image: a bird's eye view of a boat sailing between the coast and a pier

Expand situational awareness for marine vessels

Detection and Warning Systems, Detection, Location, Acquisition and Deception, IR Imaging

Enable single camera monitoring with improved accuracy

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

As 2024 comes to a close, we at Ploughshare are reflecting on a year of turning innovative ideas into real-world solutions that transform...

Food security is national security – climate science must be a national science

By Kalyan Sarma, VP of Climate, Environment, and Sustainability Commercialisation at Ploughshare We find ourselves in an era where the mo...

Defence has a problem getting hold of what it needs

By Megan Hatton, Commercialisation Manager at Ploughshare The old saying goes that necessity is the mother of invention, and if you ask a...

Reflecting on COP: The Vital Need for New IP and Technologies

By Kalyan Sarma, VP of Climate, Environment, and Sustainability Commercialisation at Ploughshare Climate change is the biggest challenge ...

The Fabian Society is right: Innovation and Research are the Key to a Prosperous Future in the UK

By Mark Gostock, VP of Health and Wellbeing Commercialisation at Ploughshare I know that we’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, and...

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...

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...

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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

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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...

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

Ploughshare Impact Report 2024

Food security is national security – climate science must be a national science

Defence has a problem getting hold of what it needs

Reflecting on COP29: The Vital Need for New IP and Technologies

Innovation and Research are the Key to a Prosperous Future in the UK

Enabling Government IP to go Further

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

Improve material performance with a new lightweight, robust solution

Expand situational awareness for marine vessels

Enable single camera monitoring with improved accuracy

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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