Partnerships
Bring research methods, test facilities, industrial requirements or manufacturing expertise to a named venture. Together, define an experiment, evaluation or engineering programme that connects specialist capability to a practical application.
The Basis of Collaboration
SIRA brings an internally originated venture and a question that matters to its development. Partners bring the expertise, facilities, customer context or production capability to help answer it.
The partner gets a defined application for its capability and a shared scope against which to assess the result. That may be an experiment, product requirement, evaluation or production study. Access, costs and rights are agreed for the work.
Your Contribution. Bring a research method, specialist team, dataset or facility relevant to the technology.
Working With SIRA. We bring the application, technical context and question to investigate together.
Possible Output. A first collaboration might be an experiment, characterisation study or independent evaluation, with agreed methods, rights and publication arrangements.
Discuss a Research ContributionYour Contribution. Bring an operating problem, user requirements or a realistic setting for evaluation.
Working With SIRA. We bring the technical approach and the questions that determine whether it can fit your use case.
Possible Output. A first collaboration might establish product requirements, evaluation criteria or a qualification plan with the responsible operating team.
Discuss an Operating RequirementYour Contribution. Bring materials, manufacturing, supply-chain or systems-integration experience.
Working With SIRA. We bring the architecture, interfaces and product requirements to examine together.
Possible Output. A first collaboration might assess manufacturability, build a representative assembly or establish the testing needed for reliable delivery.
Discuss an Engineering ContributionPossible Starting Points
Quantum Systems
Characterise a device, link or control interface under relevant test conditions.
Explore QONTOSFood Production
Connect crop trials, resource use and harvest quality to a buyer’s requirements.
Explore AITHERDrug Discovery
Connect a computational prediction to a reproducible experimental test.
Explore QUINNO
Life Sciences
Computational predictions need a path to reproducible experimental evidence. QUINNO connects molecular modelling and candidate selection with the next informative experiment.
Explore QUINNOBefore Work Starts
A working scope records what each party contributes, how the result will be judged and who decides the next step.
| Area | Agree together | Record the outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | The question, work package, responsibilities, dependencies and timetable. | A defined output and named points of contact. |
| Rights & access | Background IP, rights in new work, confidentiality, data and facility access. | Permitted uses of information, results and any publication arrangements. |
| Resources & costs | People, equipment, materials, funding and each party’s commitments. | Cost responsibility and the basis for approving changes. |
| Evidence | Method, test conditions, deliverables and acceptance criteria. | Findings, limitations and the information needed to assess them. |
| Review | Who evaluates the result and when the decision is made. | Continue, revise, extend or stop the work. |
If the work opens a route to supply, licensing or deployment, we agree that commercial scope as the next step.
Your First Introduction
Send a non-confidential introduction with a named contact. We review the fit with the venture, identify the information needed and decide whether to define a working scope together.
Our venture concepts originate internally. If you have a technology or method that could contribute, connect it to a portfolio application and explain what a collaboration could establish.
We distinguish existing rights from new work, and agree confidentiality, data access, use of results and publication review before protected information is exchanged or work begins.
They depend on the work. We agree the people, facilities, costs and commercial terms with the partner before committing resources.
Partnership Enquiries
Introduce your institution or company, the venture you are interested in and the capability or operating requirement you bring. Include a technical contact.
Discuss a Partnership
