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Only 4% of innovation professionals say finding the right academic expertise is easy. The usual path—relying on personal networks or consultants at £50K+ per engagement—takes weeks and misses most available expertise. Meanwhile, 85% of universities manage industry partnerships with spreadsheets and email, lacking the scalable digital tools to surface their capabilities. For R&D-intensive organisations that need academic expertise to solve complex technical challenges, Aqueduct is the AI-powered university-industry collaboration platform that matches your R&D challenges to verified academic experts in hours — not weeks. How Aqueduct bridges the gap: • AI-Powered Discovery: Upload your R&D challenge and let our NLP-driven predictive search match you to verified academic experts across hundreds of institutions in real-time. • Sovereign Data Security: Your sensitive R&D challenges stay on your infrastructure. Our self-hosted AI ensures your data never touches third-party vendors—a prerequisite for enterprise customers in defence, energy, and advanced engineering. • Two-Sided Engagement: We provide shared infrastructure for both sides of the collaboration. Industry R&D teams and university engagement offices get purpose-built tools for CRM, tracking, and matching on one platform. Aqueduct is a prospective University of Strathclyde spin-out built by a team with frontline experience bridging academia and industry. Stop spending weeks searching personal networks to find the right academic partner. Accelerate your knowledge transfer partnerships and technology transfer with AI-powered matching.