Designed to create commercial impact from untapped potential

For over 20 years, Ploughshare has been driving unique commercial opportunities for new intellectual property (IP), transforming early-stage innovations into start-up spin-out companies and licensed technologies which generate real-world impact, save lives, create new jobs, and boost the UK economy. We partner with both public and private sector organisations across a wide range of sectors, including defence and national security, climate and environment, health and wellbeing, and cyber, data, and AI to bring new innovations to the market.

Our expert team work intuitively across complex, secure, and deep technical environments, combining domain insight with commercial expertise to demystify opportunities, open new markets and activate new revenue streams for our partner organisations across a wide range of industries.

How we can help

These services are designed to provide flexibility and choice in how we work with you – from building end-to-end technology transfer capabilities, to specific, targeted services where you need them most. We know that not every organisation we partner with needs the same support.

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We have taken many great innovations out of the lab and into the hands of users. Our expertise enables us to deal with a wide range of technologies to find the best outcomes that benefit people and society as a whole. We do what it takes to make a difference. 

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