MATcelerate ZERO is a new initiative established to deliver a pipeline of de-risked innovative materials to industry from the groundbreaking innovations being developed within UK universities.

MATcelerate ZERO consists of six of the most materials research intensive and active universities in the commercialisation sphere, the Henry Royce Institute, and several industry partners with the goal of developing climate solutions to achieve the transition to net-zero.

By leveraging this collaborative model MATcelerate ZERO is addressing sector-wide integration and scale up challenges to turn materials into next generation products, reducing lab to market timescales for new materials from 20-30 to 7-10 years.

The programme provides innovators with a new route to find industry partners, while also giving corporate partners first refusal on licensing de-risked intellectual property.

Industry partners work with university technology transfer offices to define and select projects to receive funding from a central fund to which they contribute, in exchange for facilitated, preferential access to the new innovative opportunities and options to commercialise.

MATcelerate ZERO is based on a proven model, led by Cambridge Enterprise, to address similar integration and scale-up challenges in the pharmaceutical and agritech sectors.

Universities have the research, but the current commercialisation pathway can take over 20 years to bring materials to market; too long to help combat climate change.

Pooling the game-changing innovation from universities with the expertise of industry to bring innovative materials into next generation products. Delivering de-risked game-changing opportunities to Industry Partners.