Jessica Dobson

As Knowledge Transfer Manager for the Emerging and Enabling Team at Innovate UK Business Connect, my support includes:

• Connecting innovators to the businesses to understand your market placement
• Finding a suitable cross-sector product or service to fit a business’s challenge
• Signposting funding options to fit your situation and provide guidance on good application practices
• Assisting in building consortia to address opportunities

I support companies of all sizes, from student ventures spinning out to start-ups, SMEs, and corporations. I also support researchers looking to commercialise emerging technologies by connecting them to organisations that can help provide critical insights and evidence to support their next steps.

I am committed to ensuring that exciting, emerging and enabling technologies expand and realise their impact. Please reach out if you would like to discuss an emerging technology within life sciences, or at the intersection between life sciences and deep tech. If I can’t support in your area, I can put you in touch with the person with the right expertise. I have a background both industrial and academic organisations. I hold a PhD in biotechnology, on the interaction between plants, metals, and nanoparticle formation. Prior to my role in IUKBC, I worked within University Commercialisation to support academics in translating their research into commercially viable products and services, across biology, chemistry, software, and AI. Prior to this, I worked with Fera Science on an Innovation in Agriculture project, and in Syngenta Agrochemicals creating and validating a novel testing system to support emerging markets.