If you’re an investor or with an external business, there are many ways of working with us and benefiting from the world-leading expertise and innovation on Norwich Research Park – get in touch via business@uea.ac.uk to find out more. We will direct your query to the right team or individual, including our partner organisations in Norwich Research Park.
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NR 4ward: supporting spinout success
This page contains useful resources for staff and researchers who want their research to have a real-world impact through establishing new businesses arising from research (known as “spinouts”). Setting up an academic spinout with the support of your employer is a great way to launch new products, services and innovations.
The resources on this website section are for staff (including academics, clinicians, technicians and support staff) and researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and our partners on Norwich Research Park: Anglia Innovation Partnership, Earlham Institute, John Innes Centre, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The Sainsbury Laboratory and the Quadram Institute. These resources are a legacy of the NR 4ward pilot – which ran from November 2024 to May 2025. Funded by Research England, NR 4ward was a pilot to help us to build on our track record for developing successful spinouts across Norwich Research Park.
Overview of the NR 4ward programme
Our Partners
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Support for developing spinouts in Norwich Research Park
Each NR 4ward partner organisation in Norwich Research Park provides dedicated support for staff and researchers who are looking to launch spinouts – or explore other ways of commercialising their research.
See a short film on the support that’s available for spinout development – with Liliya Serazetdinova, Head of Business Development and Impact for the Earlham Institute.
Download our prompts for discussions with your spinout lead(s) – this also includes the relevant contact details for spinout support within each NR 4ward partnership organisation.
Download our glossary of terms about spinout development.
See a short film on the benefits of spinout development – with Liliya Serazetdinova. Liliya also talks about how the Earlham Institute supported its first spinout, TraitSeq.
All the above resources were prepared as part of the NR 4ward programme.
Spinout success stories
In this section, you can hear directly from those who have achieved spinout success – including early career researchers and academics. As you can see, some chose to remain in academia, while others decided to take full-time roles within the spinouts. All these films were made during the NR 4ward programme (which ran from November 2024 to May 2025).
“Spinout Spark”: tips for budding entrepreneurs
This section contains films from the monthly NR 4ward lunchtime webinars that we held for budding entrepreneurs, providing key tips and advice. This includes:
Some short films with successful entrepreneurs who were guest speakers at the “spinout spark” events.
Presentations and case studies by Fiona Nielsen. A serial entrepreneur, Fiona was appointed Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the Earlham Institute during the NR 4ward programme.
HealthTech webinars
Through the NR 4ward programme, leading experts Health Tech Enterprise delivered a range of webinars for those looking to develop health tech innovations. The links to the recordings of these sessions are below:
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