By The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
Providing early commercial funding to pursue commercial milestones can help researchers convert academic work into commercial value. The seed funding we provide aims to build commercial capability and confidence for researchers to validate the potential applications of their research and work with their Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) to begin packaging intellectual property into an investable proposition. We regularly see the small amounts of seed funding (less than $25k) lead to ambitious commercial projects as we have seen with both Spherelose and Ternary Kinetics launched this year after receiving seed funding previously.
