Enterprise Centre
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus
Howard Street
Sheffield
S1 1WB
Phone 0114 225 5000
Fax 0114 225 3524
E-mail business@shu.ac.uk
A blueprint for business success - commercialising research and know-how
Our research has innovative real-world applications. Companies can capitalise on our portfolio of patents and patent applications in physical and chemical sciences, engineering, IT, bioscience and industrial design by working with us to bring them to market.
You will benefit from a relationship that creates lasting value for your organisation. We work with intellectual property (IP) developed across the University, and we’d like to create ongoing partnerships to maximise the potential of our IP, our technology, and our know-how to create commercially successful products.
Our technologies are most relevant to development companies, venture capitalists and other universities worldwide.
Our extensive expertise includes key specialisms in areas including physical vapour deposition (PVD) coatings and systems, sol gel coatings, intumescent paint, fluid modelling, electron microscopy, mass spectrometry and medical instruments.
Explore some of the technologies we have created
Biomedical and healthcare
Self retaining anal speculum
Most instruments used for surgical access to the rectum suffer from disadvantages in that some require a person to hold them in place, and use of other types such as the Parks retractor come with a risk of injury.
Medical connectors
Medical tubing is connected using Luer connectors, using a design that is based on a simple taper fit and/or bayonet connection.
Advanced materials and engineering
Identification of heavy metals and pesticides in water using planar wave guides
Analysis of drinking water is generally done using mass spectrometry techniques, taking up to a few days for results to be returned from laboratories.
Vapour sensor using quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) sensor
Atmospheric concentrations of petrol and compounds such as toluene are potentially explosive between a lower explosive limit (LEL c. 10 per cent) and a higher explosive limit (HEL c. 90 per cent).
Quantum cascade laser technology
The terahertz (Thz) and mid infra red (MIR) ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum are under used in comparison with others, but the potential for application is huge.
Intumescent paint
Structural steel begins to soften at temperatures above 600 degrees Celsius, which is easily reached in a serious fire. Current regulations demand that load bearing steel is protected during a fire, giving one hour of extra time before softening.
Anti corrosion sol gel coatings
It has been estimated that the worldwide annual costs of metallic corrosion are over $500 billion per annum. Coatings are an effective solution to reduce corrosion activity, and are becoming more important with the introduction of new materials, and of new applications.
Industrial and product design
Cleaning system for discarded cigarettes
With the introduction of the smoking ban in 2007, people are required to leave a public enclosed space in order to smoke
Tactile Map
Most blind or visually impaired people require a guide to find their way around a large building or group of buildings that they are not familiar with.
Software and systems
3D facial image processing and matching
Facial recognition is one of many biometric security methods that have emerged over the last few years
Case studies
Need to find out more?
Get in touch with the Enterprise Centre
Our technology transfer team is here to help, call on 0114 225 5000 or e-mail techtransfer@shu.ac.uk.
Our experts
Robert Evans
Technology Transfer Manager
Graham Hulse
Intellectual Property and Commercial Contracts Manager
Georgia Hatzigiannidou
Technology Transfer Officer
Laura Nickson
Legal Assistant