Global IP Consulting helps founders, businesses, universities and investors turn promising science and engineering into commercially credible ventures.
We combine technology-transfer expertise, company-building experience and evidence-led commercial thinking. Our work can be a focused review, a defined project or hands-on support as a new venture takes shape.
Our main focus is helping new businesses form, validate, fund and grow. We support the decisions that connect technical potential with customer need, investable economics and practical execution.
Move from opportunity to a credible new company, product or commercial route.
Practical guidance for academic founders, management teams and early-stage ventures.
Make the technical, clinical and commercial case clear to funders and investors.
Align IP management with the commercial route and long-term value creation.
Plan for adoption in medtech, digital health and other evidence-led markets.
Build the systems that allow an ambitious young company to operate reliably.
We work with faculties, technology-transfer teams, academic founders and innovation leaders to create clearer, more repeatable routes from research outputs to adoption.
“The aim is not to commercialise everything. It is to identify the opportunities where evidence, capability and market need justify taking the next step.”
Support can be designed for a single faculty, a technology-transfer portfolio, a researcher cohort or a wider entrepreneurial programme.
We help organisations define meaningful industry or clinical challenges, map them against research strengths and assemble interdisciplinary teams to develop and test potential solutions.
Discuss a programmePractical, tailored sessions for researchers, students, founders and professional teams.
Global IP Consulting is led by Terry Pollard, supported by a trusted network and by Oksana Pollard. We work together on selected projects where commercial, IP and international perspectives are valuable.
Innovation and IP consultant, entrepreneur and company builder with more than 20 years’ experience. Terry has worked in technology transfer, business development and venture creation, and was Chief Operating Officer of an Oxford University spinout company.
His experience includes fundraising, NIHR project delivery, IP management, regulatory clearance, quality certification and operational scale-up. He supports founders, businesses, universities and investors across medtech, digital health, life sciences, deep tech, cleantech and advanced engineering.
Oksana brings practical experience in intellectual-property management, including supporting the organisation of IP information, processes and portfolios to inform commercial decision-making. She studied intellectual-property management in Ukraine and brings an international perspective, together with valuable cultural understanding and professional links relevant to work involving Ukrainian organisations, founders and innovation networks.
Terry and Oksana collaborate on selected projects, combining commercialisation, venture-development and IP-management perspectives to support clients as they evaluate opportunities and develop practical routes to market.
Our work is rooted in the UK, with experience and relationships that support international collaboration where it adds value.
Experience includes physics, chemistry, materials, medical devices, digital health, life sciences, AI-enabled diagnostics, catalysts, cleantech, fuel cells, clean water, sustainable agriculture and renewable energy.
Senior operational experience supporting a university spinout developing technology for earlier detection of neurodegenerative conditions. This included investment and NIHR-funded project activity, intellectual-property management, regulatory and quality planning, and operational scale-up.
Worked with academic founders, investors, companies and government organisations on licensing, business plans, grant applications, market assessment and the formation of new ventures.
Advised universities, governments, research institutions and early-stage teams internationally, including work with technology-transfer offices and Entrepreneur in Residence programmes.
Client names and confidential project details are generalised. Experience described here does not imply endorsement by any named organisation.
Tell us what you are trying to achieve, where the uncertainty lies and what decision you need to make next. We can explore whether a focused review, mentoring relationship or hands-on project would help.
Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, UK
Working with clients across the UK and internationally.
Global IP Consulting Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales.
Registered number: 08224850
Registered office: First Floor 1 Des Roches Square, Witan Way, Witney, England, OX28 4BE.