Explore our key sectors, innovative ecosystems, licensees, and spin-outs

Ploughshare exists to discover, liberate, and scale new innovative Intellectual Property (IP) into real-world technologies across a broad range of sectors and applications, through licensing deals and creating spin-out companies.

We work with a wide range of organisations and individuals, including government, private sector industry bodies and SMEs, academia and research institutions, investors, entrepreneurs, and inventors to bring these innovations to life. The technologies that we work with have been designed to generate impact and make a real difference to support positive solutions for defence and national security, healthcare, cybersecurity, data, and AI, and climate, sustainability, and the environment.

Key Sectors

Protecting an innovation is only the beginning. The real challenge lies in identifying viable market opportunities – often beyond the invention’s original remit – and validating the sectors, customers, and growth pathways that will unlock its full potential. Our team brings together industry leader and...

Our Ecosystem

Become part of our innovative ecosystem. Turning early-stage innovation into real-world impact requires more than just great ideas – it demands the right connections, insight, and support. Too often, promising technologies stall because they lack access to the networks...

Spin-outs and Licensees

Ploughshare has created 16 spin-out companies and brought over 140 technologies to market. We work with a wide range of individuals and organisations across different sectors to create new start-up spin-out companies, or license the technology to existing organisations...

Explore the Playbook

Take a closer look at our Spin-out Playbook for more details on who we work with and the services we offer.

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