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Key activities on which the team focus include:

• Driving and supporting pathways that create positive impacts from our university's research outputs, expertise and infrastructure.
• Tracking, identifying, developing and protecting new inventions and research breakthroughs.
• Encouraging and helping entrepreneurs, including our own spin-out companies, through the provision of bespoke supports in our Business Innovation Centre.
• Collaborating in the scaling and growing of spin-outs and other early-stage companies including social enterprises.
• Fostering collaborative research and industry engagements.
• Leading initiatives and partnerships that grow innovation and economic development in our region and beyond.
• Developing and deploying the knowledge, training, policies, processes and legal frameworks that support our function.