Welcome to the QUBIS Ltd website.

QUBIS Ltd was established in 1984 by The Queen's University of Belfast to commercialise the University's research and development activities through the formation of 'spin-out' businesses. The University, through QUBIS Ltd, takes an equity holding in a new spin-out venture in return for an investment of cash and/or Intellectual Property. Our major aim is to 'pull through' appropriate R & D from the laboratory into the commercial market place.

QUBIS Ltd proactively seeks to identify and evaluate commercially exploitable research and resources from within Queen's University. Management and partners, who have appropriate skills and access to the market place, are then sought. All new ventures are market led and only those with strong feedback from the market place are actually undertaken. Our experience has shown that the support of a private or trade investor, particularly one who brings access to markets, e.g. having an established distribution system or presence in a relevant market, is especially desirable.

The immediate objective of QUBIS Ltd as a holding company, is to establish a ongoing stream of dividend, or other income, from its investments. We are patient investors and all of our investments are undertaken for the medium to long term, we do not look for a early exit.

Inherent in this statement of objectives is that by building up a portfolio of successful investments in QUB technology spin-outs, there will be some welcome by-products and bonuses as follows:

• Economic Development
  New High-tech businesses, exports and employment, especially of University graduates.
  
• Technology Transfer
  From Queen's to local and national economies.
  
• Enhanced University Profile
  Highlighting commercially relevant research at The Queen's University of Belfast.