Business incubation

InnovationRCA has been providing early business support to students to help them protect and commercialise pioneering design-led technologies since 2005.

This support is provided through a number of programmes including:

• Commercialisation Support Programmes: The focus of these programmes is to guide, support and mentor students in commercialising their intellectual property, primarily through licensing.
• InnovationRCA Incubator: Compelling graduate ventures with design-led technologies are given business support and mentoring to transform them into investible businesses.

NESTA and James Dyson Foundation Support
In 2011 NESTA awarded the Royal College of Art an incubator grant to enable it to increase the number of ventures supported and develop a self-sustaining model of interdisciplinary incubation.

The James Dyson Foundation also provides generous support for patent protection and the James Dyson Innovation Fellowship aims to foster innovation by supporting talented RCA designers in protecting and commercialising their work.

In 2012 InnovationRCA is relocating to a purpose-built incubator in the Dyson Building on the RCA's Battersea campus.