InnovationRCA develops and manages Intellectual Property generated at the Royal College of Art, creating opportunities for business through licensing or spin-out formation.

Thoughtful design is at the heart of the many award-winning commercial product and business ideas developed each year by RCA students.

InnovationRCA plays an important role in providing professional enterprise support to bring graduating student innovative ideas to early commercial success. It carries out these activities through the following vehicles:

Selected Works RCA commercially develops selected RCA graduate innovations in partnership with business through intellectual property protection, licensing activities or spin-out company formation. Selected Works in development are grouped into three portfolios: architecture and environment, health and medical, and home and leisure. More...

Selected Start-Ups provides an opportunity for a selection of the best very early-stage design-led Start-Ups to connect with seed capital. A private event, involving angel investors and graduating RCA entrepreneurs with business ideas from any sector, will take place prior to any public disclosure in the College's Senior Common Room on 26 May 2010. More...

James Dyson Innovation Fellowship supports young RCA innovators in protecting and commercialising their work. One Fellowship is awarded per year to a graduating RCA student whose innovation is a College Selected Work. More...

The London Design Festival Innovation Fellowship in Materials funds pioneering materials research by a creative practitioner in art and design at the Royal College of Art. One Fellowship is awarded per year to a graduating RCA student. More...

RCA-Imperial Triangle Projects enable RCA graduates to work closely with Imperial Innovations at Imperial College on IP-generating projects that unite scientific invention, commercial skills and user-centred design, mainly in the medical and surgical device sector. More...