Powering Ideas to Innovation: The significance, structure and dynamics of the UK university spinout ecosystem

Abstract

Our report Powering Ideas to Innovation: The significance, structure and dynamics of the UK university spinout ecosystem presents the first flagship analysis of the data underlying the newly released UK university Spinout Register. Developed by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA, part of Jisc) with expertise from Research England and the Policy Evidence Unit for University Commercialisation and Innovation (UCI), the Register makes every effort to capture, for the first time, the full population of university spinout companies founded to commercialise intellectual property (IP) emerging from all UK Higher Education Providers (HEPs). This report showcases how, through further curation, data linking, and analysis, we can leverage the information provided by the Spinout Register to create a powerful dataset able to unlock new insights; here on the significance of university spinouts for the UK economy, the structure and dynamics of the spinout ecosystem, and the scale of success.