In addition to its role as an interdisciplinary research centre within the University environment, COSMIC is committed to developing profitable partnerships with the industrial sector across the full range of its activities. The nature of existing partnerships is very diverse and includes consultancy, training, provision of characterisation services, and joint research programmes leading to intellectual property generation, licensing and commercialisation of emerging technologies.

Specifically, COSMIC offers industrial partners:

• Resources for short lead time testing of new technologies with particular applications in biotech, optoelectronics and other strategically important sectors.

• Provision of physical space with well-equipped infrastructure for pre-incubator proof of principle testing.

• Access to internationally-recognised expertise in key areas such as:
  • optics
  • microscopy/imaging
  • spectroscopy
  • materials characterisation
  • fluoresence-based techniques
  • photophysics
  • optical trapping

  A more detailed account of current activities can be found on the research pages.

• Contract Services.

COSMIC benefits from a full time Commercialisation Manager (Trevor Whittley) who coordinates our industrial liaison activities and is the first point of contact for enquiries from the industrial sector. Some examples of our current partnerships are identified below:

Large Multinationals
(Partner in Research)

SMEs
		CRLO

Research Institutes/Centres
		The Beatson Institute

Current Sponsors/Funding Agencies