Collaborations
Open invitations, not networking
Working groups, trials and circles with a question attached. If you only want a logo on a slide, this is the wrong page.
Open working groups and shared studies. Each states the contribution expected, the return, the commitment in hours, and the data and intellectual property terms — before anybody contributes anything.
- Several of these deliberately want a competitor in the room, because certain questions are unanswerable alone.
- The terms are on the page rather than in an agreement to be drafted later. That is the point.
- Commitment is stated in hours per month, so you can decline honestly.
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Independent · hosted with Derby industrial fellows · Derby · closes 31 Oct 2026
Hydrogen combustor materials — a grown-up roundtable
A closed, unshowy working group on liner alloys, coatings and the things that crack when the flame is too keen.
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Quill Robotics · University of Oxford · Plumbline · Bristol / Oxford / Leeds · closes 30 Sept 2026
Shop-floor vision without the theatre
A collaboration to put computer vision on lines that already have quality engineers — and to keep both parties speaking.
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Tidewright · University of Strathclyde · Orkney / Glasgow · closes 15 Nov 2026
Tidal array wake study
Two devices are a conversation. An array is a neighbourhood dispute. We would like to measure the wakes before the planning inquiry does.
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NPL · The University of Manchester · Teddington / Manchester · closes 1 Dec 2026
Traceable quantum magnetometry in the field
Taking a laboratory magnetometer into a field, a hangar, or a slightly magnetic van, and still knowing what the number means.
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Swansea University · University of Leeds · industrial partners sought · South Wales / Midlands · closes 20 Jan 2027
Low-carbon rail sleeper trial
A sleeper is not a white paper. This collaboration will put alternative mixes in the ground and see what the trains think.
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University College London · startups by application · Bloomsbury · closes 15 Sept 2026
Clinical diagnostic translation circle
A small circle for teams approaching first-in-human work. Less accelerator theatre, more protocol and pharmacy.
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University of Glasgow · Lumen Forge · Satellite Applications Catapult · Glasgow / Cambridge / Harwell · closes 30 Nov 2026
Small satellite qualification consortium
Chamber slots, shared procedures, and an end to every small team writing the same thermal-vacuum document from scratch.
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Hearthline · Newcastle University · sites by invitation · Sheffield / Newcastle / participating sites · closes 28 Feb 2027
Industrial heat site data pool
Anonymised heat and electricity data from real factories, pooled so that integration studies stop starting from an annual average.