RRS identifies, develops and manages commercial opportunities arising from ideas, inventions and expertise within the Rowett Institute We offer a customer service centred approach that combines technical, project and intellectual property management together with marketing skills to facilitate commercial development of intellectual property and foster links between industry and the science community Our collaborations range from projects on fundamental science through to practical applications of technology to practical problems As part of our continuing commitment to commercialising Intellectual Property we are a founding consortium member of the Genomia Seed Fund and are members of the Genesis Faraday Partnership and the Food Processing Knowledge Transfer Network Where appropriate we work with scientists and partner organisations to identify and source the most suitable finance for development of ideas and intellectual property, particularly where further 'proof of concept' work is needed