Scheme details
Area: Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, County Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Northumberland
Categories: Finance & funding, Business support
Business stage: Start-up, Trading business
Key contact: Edwin Milligan
Telephone: 0191 334 4389
Contact email: northern.accelerator@durham.ac.uk
Page last updated: 20 March 2025
Northern Accelerator is an innovative collaboration between Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland, Teesside and York Universities.
It has transformed research commercialisation in the North East, helping address regional imbalance and strengthening the region’s knowledge economy.
It support academics and business leaders to create promising spin-out businesses from their world-leading academic research. These businesses create high quality jobs and raise significant investment here in the North East and North Yorkshire.
Support available
We encourage academics to embrace opportunities for enterprise – providing training to help recognise and exploit intellectual property.
We offer funding for academics to take high-quality research projects closer to commercialisation.
We’re offering focussed scale up support for existing spin-outs from our partner universities
We have a pool of experienced and talented business executives to match to opportunities to lead university spin-outs.
We have an investment fund of seed capital to help spin-outs validate business models and demonstrate value to investors.
Northern Accelerator will create a sustainable change in the innovation environment through an ongoing venture fund for university spin-outs.
