Innovation

We engage in innovation activities to:

  1. Help our students and staff create a positive impact on society from the outputs of our research
  2. Create income for the University so we can fund new research
  3. Support regional growth and investment in R&D
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Latest innovation news

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19 JAN 2023

Blog: Progress on AI patent legal cases

16 JAN 2023

Multi-layered ‘space skin’ can help future satellites and spacecraft harvest energy

12 JAN 2023

Surrey Research Park celebrates tenants’ year of award-winning success, and contributing over 10% of Guildford’s economy

Spotlight on our innovators

Experiences of innovation at the University of Surrey told in the words of our staff, students and partners.

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Pavlos Giannakou
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Mantle Labs
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Covid-19

Discover how our innovators and business partners are helping us battle back against Covid-19 by making safer PPE, deploying faster cheaper portable testkits, creating online ethical recruitment software and delivering health interventions into our communities.

Student enterprise funding

Student Enterprise

The University of Surrey’s Student Enterprise programme offers practical business support to entrepreneurial students from all disciplines who aspire to run their own business, create a social enterprise and develop enterprise skills for within their careers. We equip them with the training, mentoring, office space and funding opportunities needed to get their idea up and running.

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Latest blog posts

02.03.22

Launching the refreshed Open Research website:

An action-oriented resource that supports global developments ‘Think globally, act locally’ applies...

27.10.21

Surrey’s Open Research: A cause for celebration – and a call to further action

I am delighted to support this year’s International Open Access Week: an annual opportunity to...