Innovation

We engage in innovation activities to:

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

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Become an innovator

Meet our start-ups

Identify funding for your collaboration

Become our business partner

Make Surrey Research Park your business headquarters

Recruit a placement student

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.

Visit our Covid-19 innovation pages

Spotlight on our innovators

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

Our researchers can help your business create its next amazing product

Search our database of licensable technologies

Open technology database

Latest innovation news

29.01.21

Guildford Innovation Awards Success

25.01.21

University of Surrey students and staff among first to get innovative new 20-minute COVID-19 test developed by the University

15.01.21

Spotlight on AVS UK Ltd

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.

Visit our Student Enterprise pages