{"id":87797,"date":"2018-01-08T16:20:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T16:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=cfd94e5c62092b0a570cb0ea5c5dc36f"},"modified":"2018-01-08T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T16:20:22","slug":"news-story-ploughshare-to-commercialise-technologies-from-the-centre-for-applied-science-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=87797","title":{"rendered":"News story: Ploughshare to commercialise technologies from the Centre for Applied Science and Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Ploughshare is the UK\u2019s leading defence and security technology transfer company with responsibility for the technology transfer of early stage research and intellectual property from the Ministry of Defence (<abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>This new agreement gives Ploughshare access to inventions from <abbr title=\"Centre for Applied Science and Technology\">CAST<\/abbr> which will allow industry to secure licences and benefit from world leading technology developed by the Home Office. The initial phase has already begun with three technologies under evaluation for commercialisation.<\/p>\n<p>James Kirby, Ploughshare CEO, commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This work extends our reach into wider government and builds upon an agreement signed earlier this year to provide commercialisation services to the <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr> Intellectual Property Rights Group, as well as our existing relationship with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (<abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr>). We look forward to supporting <abbr title=\"Centre for Applied Science and Technology\">CAST<\/abbr> in helping it to exploit their intellectual property to benefit both the UK government and industry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Andy Bell, Head of <abbr title=\"Centre for Applied Science and Technology\">CAST<\/abbr>, added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This agreement brings advantages to both <abbr title=\"Centre for Applied Science and Technology\">CAST<\/abbr> and its scientists by making our world-leading technologies more widely available and gives us the opportunity to further contribute to UK prosperity. It is also another demonstration of how we are already successfully working with <abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr> ahead of <abbr title=\"Centre for Applied Science and Technology\">CAST<\/abbr>\u2019s integration next year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ploughshare will incorporate the new technologies into its established approach to industry to develop commercial licensing arrangements and the creation of spin-out companies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) has made an agreement with Ploughshare Innovations to commercialise their intellectual property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}