Increase your expertise

We have a huge amount of expertise and knowledge at the University of Exeter which can benefit business, from academic research to professional networks. There are numerous ways we can work together to help you access this expertise and develop your business.

Our research

Exeter is a vibrant centre for new ideas with an excellent research foundation. We are leaders in cutting-edge science, engineering, mathematics, and medicine research, as well as having a world-class reputation in the humanities and social sciences built up over many years. Our academics and research centres are some of the best in the world, and their expertise can be invaluable to business.

Find out more about our research expertise.

Ways we can work with you

We have estbalished a number of specific schemes to enable access to our research expertise, all developed with business in mind.

Consultancy & contract research

Our scientists, engineers, and academics are available for consultation in their established areas of expertise, and can be contracted to carry out brand new research specifically related to your business needs.

Find out more about undertaking consultancy and contract research with us.

Commercial Opportunities

Our research often generates new intellectual property, from cutting edge technologies to new ways of thinking, and we are committed to effective exploitation of this via commercial partnerships with industry.

Find out more about our commercial opportunities.

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)

The well-established and government-sponsored KTP scheme seeks to give businesses access to academic expertise at the same time as developing recent graduates and postgraduates, by placing KTP associates into businesses as conduits to academics based within the University.

Find out more about Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.

Research students

We have a thriving community of postgraduate researchers, with over 1200 students working across a huge variety of disciplines. Many of these are completing PhDs to develop specialist knowledge and transferable skills which may be invaluable to your business.

Find out more about how you can work with our research students.

When we work with you

We are committed to conducting our business relationships with the utmost professionalism, and have set out principles detailing how we manage confidentiality, contracts, IPR, warranties, guarantees, and indemnities.

Find out more about about how we work with you.

Success stories

Real examples of the ways we work with business.