UCL Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Strategy (2024-2029)

This 5-year strategy sets out our ambition to grow and strengthen UCL’s knowledge exchange and innovation ecosystems to maximise economic and societal impact.

UCL is at the forefront of innovative thinking and new knowledge, developing our research excellence in collaboration with our partners and wider community. Today, as the world rapidly changes around us, UCL is using its unique position to mobilise, translate and apply research and knowledge that makes a tangible impact on pressing global issues.

The UCL 5-year Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Strategy (2024-2029) sets out our ambition to grow and strengthen UCL’s knowledge exchange and innovation ecosystems to maximise economic and societal impact. We will do this by:

Accelerating activity to address society’s greatest challenges, delivering impact from our research and expertise through commercialisation, partnerships and engagement more broadly.
Championing the UK’s drive for innovation-led growth from the university sector, by strengthening our activities across business, government and public sector engagement.
Empowering UCL’s community of students, graduates, researchers and professional services and technical staff to drive knowledge exchange activities, developing impactful leaders whose actions will transform lives, the economy and our future.

Strategy priorities

Partnerships and engagement

Accelerating UCL’s routes to knowledge exchange, innovation and impact through:

driving institutional ambition
leveraging strategic relationships
developing our collaborative pipeline

Place and space

Sharing across local, regional and international landscapes to stimulate and scale societal and economic impact through:

ecosystems for excellence
incubation and acceleration
mobilising knowledge and expertise

People and culture

Empowering UCL’s community to achieve innovative and impactful knowledge exchange through:

skills development and capacity building
recognition and reward
knowledge exchange frameworks and mechanisms

Context

Learn more about context in which this new strategy has been developed >

Enablers

To successfully deliver on our ambitions, we have identified enablers and support structures that inform how we resource and invest our expertise across UCL, alongside the processes and policies which underpin this strategy.

These enablers drive opportunities for UCL to be novel, bold and radical in our approach to accelerating the real-world impact of our activities.

Learn more about the enablers which will help UCL achieve the ambitions set out in our strategy >