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Business Alliance

What is Business Alliance?

The Business Alliance team can help businesses and other organisations identify aspects of Queen’s research that are relevant to their work.

This may involve setting up introductory meetings with researchers, providing some early-stage funding to pilot the collaboration, or assisting in securing external funding for collaborative research. The team can also support with the pricing, contracting, and initiation of research collaborations to ensure the process is straightforward and accessible to our collaborating partners.

Queen’s is a high-performing, research-intense university that is committed to engaging with businesses on research and innovation to help them achieve their goals. The University also has an excellent track record in securing funding for collaborations with business from funders such as Innovate UK and Invest NI. Partnering with Queen’s can be a way for businesses to significantly grow their innovation activity.

How can your organisation engage with Business Alliance?

  • Help to identify relevant researchers
  • Provide resources to commence new collaborations
  • Support in securing external funding for collaboration

 

Case studies

  • Seagate

    Queen’s University researchers are working to deliver the next generation of nano-photonic devices in partnership with Seagate Technologies in an initiative that is driving significant inward investment to Northern Ireland.

    The partnership has led to the creation of the Smart Nano NI Consortium which has been awarded over £60m to develop new technology for medical devices, communication and data storage.

    Working alongside Seagate Technologies and other industry partners, researchers at Queen’s are creating ground-breaking nano-photonics devices and establishing a supply chain for these devices into healthcare, optical communications and data storage sectors.

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  • Wrightbus

    Researchers from Queen’s, in collaboration with Wrightbus have developed best-in-class low and zero emissions technologies playing a key role in decarbonising UK and international public transport.

    Building on over 20 years of work, researchers at Queen’s have developed advanced hybrid powertrain modelling technology which is integral to thousands of low emission hybrid vehicles currently in service around the world. 
     
    Queen’s has a distinguished track record in engine simulation. The focus has broadened from modelling conventional internal combustion engines in the mid-1990s to modelling the complete powertrain system in recent years.  

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Contact Business Alliance
Dermot Leonard, Head of Business Alliance

dermot.leonard@qub.ac.uk