Military Exploits

摘要

Despite its reputation as a clandestine realm of top secret science and shadowy operatives, the world of military research and development (R&D) is actually responsible for many of the everyday technologies that we take for granted: the mobile phone, GPS, Teflon and superglue to name but a few.rnBut when it comes to commercialising intellectual property (IP) from military research, a sensitive touch is required to get the best value for taxpayers' money while ensuring ho military secrets are spilled.rnHere in the UK, that responsibility lies with Ploughshare Innovations, a technology transfer company founded by the MoD's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) headquartered at Porton Down. And while Dstl's responsibility is to bring the best science and technology innovations into the UK's defence capability, Ploughshare's brief is to do the reverse and commercialise the MoD's research into non-military markets.