University of Manchester Innovation Factory
Gareth Jones is a skilled project manager specializing in electronics, currently employed at the University of Manchester Innovation Factory since January 2020. Prior to this role, Gareth served as a scientific and technical officer at Graphene Enabled Systems from May 2018 to December 2019 and held dual responsibilities as a doctoral student and technology transfer process engineer at the University of Exeter from September 2013 to December 2017. Gareth's early experience includes a research internship at SPECIFIC IKC in August 2012. Educationally, Gareth holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, as well as multiple Master of Physics degrees from the University of Exeter and the University of Sydney, obtained between 2009 and 2013.
University of Manchester Innovation Factory
Driving the commercialisation of the University’s innovations and intellectual property. Our core mission is to use this IP to create positive social and economic impact. The Innovation Factory works with academic and student inventors to identify research that has the potential to create value. It then translates these into a form where they can be used to benefit society as a whole. Access to innovations may be created via technology licensing or the formation of new spin-out companies. The Innovation Factory aims to provide a world class service to academic colleagues as well as industry; entrepreneurs; licensees; VC & angel investors and corporate venturing partners. The Innovation factory aims to have a truly global reach and, with the scale and quality of research taking place at The University of Manchester, it has the ambition to be one of the world’s most effective Technology Transfer organisations. We are wholly owned by The University of Manchester.