DEVELOPMENT GAP FUND

In February 2003 the MRC approved a £4.5M 3 year fund to support early stage, commercially oriented development of basic science in its Units. This uses revenues from previous commercial activities and is managed by MRCT. The fund will run for three years and aims to support up to fifteen projects per year.

The Development Gap Fund is ‘pre-seed’ money, operating at the earliest possible stage of technology transfer. It is intended to strengthen new patent filings or to support the application of patents from good, commercially interesting, ideas. The awards from this fund will be for projects that are governed by commercial rather than scientific potential, and so would not usually be funded by the MRC or academic grants. The projects will also be actively managed by MRC Technology to meet technical and commercial objectives

Please click here for a full list of all Development Gap Fund Projects