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Engagement · Collaborative Development

Development collaborations built on evidence and decision points.

KyperX considers joint R&D, research and industry partnerships, supplier development, licensing discussions, joint ventures and project development where the technical fit is real and the terms can be defined before commitments are made.

  • Roles agreed before commitment
  • IP and funding defined
  • Decision points and exits

Forms of Collaboration

The collaborations KyperX may consider.

Each is considered on its technical fit with KyperX’s focus areas and capabilities.

Joint R&D

Shared technical work on a defined question, with contributions and results set out in advance.

Research and industry partnerships

With universities, research organisations and industry, including program-supported or co-funded work where the parties are eligible.

Supplier and technology development

Developing or evaluating a supplier’s technology within an application KyperX works on.

Licensing discussions

Early technical and commercial discussion about access to technology or know-how.

Joint development and joint ventures

Structured development of a specific opportunity by more than one party.

Project development

Advancing a selected project with parties who bring capabilities, sites, supply or funding.

What Gets Defined

Seven things to settle before commitment.

A focused first conversation identifies which of these matter most for the opportunity.

Technical scope

The question, boundary and work each stage covers.

Roles and contributions

What each party brings: capability, data, sites, equipment, funding or access.

Evidence at each stage

What must be shown before the next stage is justified.

Intellectual property

The background IP each party brings, and how new IP would be treated.

Confidentiality

What is shared, with whom, and on what terms.

Funding

Sources, obligations and reporting, including any program conditions.

Decision points

When the parties review, continue, change direction or exit.

Have an opportunity in mind? Start with the opportunity and the roles you envisage.

Discuss a collaboration

Roles

Who does what is agreed, not assumed.

An illustration of how roles can divide across a collaboration. Every collaboration sets its own.

DEFINE INVESTIGATE DECIDE DEVELOP Partner OBJECTIVE, CONTEXT DATA, SITE, ACCESS COMMIT, CHANGE OR EXIT AGREED CONTRIBUTION KyperX SCOPE, BOUNDARY RESEARCH, ANALYSIS EVIDENCE, OPTIONS ENGINEERING, PLANNING SpecialistsWHERE REQUIRED SPECIALIST INPUT SPECIALIST DELIVERY ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY: ROLES, CONTRIBUTIONS AND SPECIALISTS ARE AGREED FOR EACH COLLABORATION

Division of roles, illustrative. Dashed marks separate parties engaged only where required.

Before Agreement

Nothing is assumed before it is agreed.

Discussions do not create a partnership, licence, ownership interest or funding commitment. Those exist only in a written agreement negotiated by the parties and their advisers. KyperX does not assess or guarantee eligibility for any grant or program, and confidentiality can be discussed before technical detail is exchanged.

Modular Intelligent Systems

A modular robotics and electronics architecture in which reusable modules also form part of the machine’s structure.

Stage: Concept & requirements definition

View the program

Integrated Energy & Industrial Systems

How electricity, storage, hydrogen production and industrial processes interact as one development configuration.

Stage: Concept & preliminary analysis

Explore Energy & Industry

Green Iron & Steel

A magnetite-based pathway to lower-emission iron and steel.

Stage: Concept & preliminary analysis

View the pathway

Enquire

Discuss a development collaboration.

Describe the opportunity, the roles you envisage and the funding context, if known. Please keep the first description non-confidential.

No obligation. Scope, deliverables and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

What to include

  • The opportunity and the technical question behind it
  • The roles you envisage for each party
  • Any funding, program or timing context

What happens next

Review Conversation Written proposal

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Collaborative development

Discuss a collaboration