The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) and Imperial College are combining to translate Imperial’s  research and inventions into products and services.

The two organisations will seek opportunities to host each other’s staff with a series of training programmes and secondments. This will accelerate the transfer of  scientific knowledge and technical skills between CPI and Imperial.

CPI aims to support Imperial with its expertise in product and process development to accelerate discoveries made on the College lab bench into commercial products and processes.

CPI acts as a bridge between academia and industry, working alongside government and investors to de-risk and accelerate the translation of bright ideas into the marketplace. It offers  facilities for developing products and processes through its National Centres, such as the National Biologics Manufacturing Centre, the National Printable Electronics Centre, and the National Centre for Healthcare Photonics.

By working together with world-leading scientists and engineers from Imperial College London, CPI can readily access the latest research and apply it to industrial processes.

“This partnership with CPI will let us further diversify the routes we use to validate and develop exciting discoveries and inventions across our research portfolio, sayscImperial vive-provost Professor Nick Jennings.