School of GeoSciences

Working with business and industry

We work with a variety of partners and in a number of ways to support business goals.

Our Business Development Team also helps academics form and sustain industry-academic partnerships for innovation and collaborative research and development funding. 

For larger multi-disciplinary programmes, such as the Industry Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF), for example, we work in cooperation with Edinburgh Innovations for wider access to University expertise, facilities and resources. 

Our most common models of collaboration include: We are broadly working across the following key themes:
Sponsored research Geoenergy
Government-funded collaborative R&D programmes Space and satellites
Consultancy Digital health and the environment 
Studentships Supporting the net-zero transition   
Knowledge transfer partnerships  
Commercialisation, licensing and company spin-out  

Contact the Business Development Team

To find out more about working with us, please get in touch.

PhD training, research and access to talent

Helping businesses gain access to research talent and capacity

Space and satellites innovation programme

The University of Edinburgh is a Space University, with researchers and staff working in an extraordinary range of space-related activities.

The University and networks

We work closely with key stakeholder across the University, to ensure cross-sectoral collaboration and sharing of knowledge and resources.

Example projects

Read about some of our projects, where we benefit society and the economy by helping researchers, students and industry drive innovation.

Our research facilities

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Many of our world-class facilities are available for commercial use or on a consultancy basis.

If you are interested in using our world-class facilities, please view our research and facilities information.

Research facilities