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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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.

ABOUT US

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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

140 +

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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