Intellectual property is at the heart of the knowledge economy. Business Accelerators identify intellectual property, assertain a market place and assess commercial vialbility before allocating investment and management to drive the business towards success. All the accelerators use proven commercialisation techniques.
Sheffield is home to a number of technology accelorators which make up it's innovation eco-system:
- Life IC are involved in energy technology and have a focus in environmentally-friendly technology.
- Nomo-IR support businesses and intellectual property focussed on nano and micro techonology.
- Knowledge Starts is a partnership between The University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University and Creativesheffield to commercialise academic intellectual property.
- The Net Start work with advanced applications for the internet
- bioFusion specialise in the commercialisation of bio and medical sciences.