King's Innovation Catalyst engages with potential industry collaborators – from small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to multinationals - in all research areas and stages of innovation development. We coordinate support to industry partners and King’s researchers, helping to achieve common goals. By stimulating creative exchanges, we help translate research output into marketable products.

King’s College London ranks 6th in the UK for research ‘power’ and hosts world-class research facilities across its five campuses in central London. We’ve built partnerships with key London institutions, including the Francis Crick Institute, Europe’s leading biomedical research institute. Alongside King’s Health Partners, we’re also the largest healthcare training partner in Europe, with three teaching hospitals totalling 4.8 million patient contacts per year and 600 clinical trials at any one time.

A broad range of perspectives inform King’s research and its strong culture of innovation. From patients to local communities, industry and international business to national governments, our work has laid the foundations for long-term partnerships. These include the Unilever King's Biosciences Innovation Hub and the UCB Hub at King’s.

We’re open to different forms of collaboration, including sharing expertise and facilities, conducting clinical trials and sponsoring fellowships.

Our award-winning team engages with potential licensors to market our pipeline of life-changing innovations.

Find out more about our technology portfolio.

If you collaborate with us you will have:

• Access to innovative discoveries and know-how in early-stage development
• Opportunities to work with King’s research talent
• Knowledge and people exchange through secondments and innovation funding schemes
• Exposure to expertise and key opinion-makers with in-depth knowledge of academic research
• Integration of industry teams within the King’s research ecosystem
• Access to specialised research platforms and scientific facilities, in areas like imaging, genomics or optics.

The Industry Research Partnerships team is the go-to service for external companies keen on collaborating and using academic research to solve real-life problems. Our team can work closely with you to understand your needs and challenges and help you get the best out of your partnership with King's.

Industry partners work with King’s using different collaboration models:

• Co-founded research collaborations
• Joint-funding applications and innovation funding
• Contract research work or consultancies
• Training, in the form of PhD studentships and participation in doctoral centres or post-doctoral fellowships
• Knowledge and people exchange: Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, academic-industrial secondments, campus co-location and dedicated hubs, conferences and upskilling courses.

We can also connect you with an expert in King's Innovation Catalyst for technology development and licensing. To start the conversation, contact innovation@kcl.ac.uk.

Alongside our work with multinational companies, our team also engages with SMEs and entrepreneurs for industry collaborations.

We welcome proposals from companies with specific outcomes that identify potential matches with King’s research talent or projects. We are actively seeking industry professionals interested in academic collaborations through innovation funding schemes.