Ningbo Nottingham Technology Co., Ltd.

Ningbo Nottingham Technology
Co., Ltd.

Empower industry with university capabilities

About NNTC

Ningbo Nottingham Technology Co., Ltd. (NNTC), a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, serves as asset management platform and commercial arm of the University. It holds, manages and operates assets on behalf of the university, and conducts the negotiation, execution, management and operation of related commercial contracts, especially conducts the operation and management of the commercialisation of the research achievements and the intellectual property of the university.

 

Management team

Thomas Murphy

Chairman of NNTC Board of Directors
Chief Financial and Planning Officer, UNNC

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Min Rose

Director of NNTC Board of Directors
Interim Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange, UNNC

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John Zhou

Director of NNTC Board of Directors
Dean of Faculty of Science and Engineering, UNNC 

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Summer Xin

Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of NNTC

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Gina Shao

Office Manager of NNTC

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Roles and business

Commercial enablement

NNTC supports commercial contracts and agreements and facilitates business model development and spinouts establishment.

Market-oriented execution

NNTC bridges academic achievements with market demands, accelerating commercialisation and time-to-market.

Industry linkage

NNTC expands industry connections and provides tools and resources to transform academic discoveries into commercial products or services.

Risk control

NNTC offers structured support to ensure commercialisation is legally sound, financially viable, and market-aligned, while mitigating risks and ensuring innovations are both market ready and compliant with regulations.

Asset management

NNTC manages IP, spinouts equity and other tangible and intangible assets with a focus on value creation and long-term sustainability to maximize their strategic and commercial value.

Spinout portfolio

Ningbo Ausstattung Machinery Technology Co., Ltd.

Ningbo Ausstattung Machinery Technology Co., Ltd. closely grasps the forefront of advanced manufacturing equipment development and is committed to providing customers with innovative solutions for comprehensive upgrading of extreme manufacturing equipment and technology. With UNNC as the source of technology, the company has formed a doctoral team specialising in mechanical, control, optics and other technical majors, and has rich experience in R&D and industrialisation. At present, it has successfully developed hard-core products marked by desktop five-axis CNC machine tools.

Compared with traditional five-axis machine tools, it is low cost (reduced by 70%), small size (reduced by 80%), high precision (micron level), light weight (reduced by 95%), and multi-functional integrated. It is suitable for high-precision and efficient processing of high-value-added small parts, and solves the pain points of high cost, large footprint, high energy consumption, and poor mobility of traditional large-scale five-axis machine tools for processing small parts.

Ningbo Team NoEE Power Co., Ltd. 

Ningbo Team NoEE Power Co., Ltd. was originated from a self-developed project launched in mid-2018 by Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Multi-Electric Aircraft, Provincial Engineering Research Center for Aviation Electrification. They are committed to providing power system solutions for electric propulsion aircraft, addressing the crucial challenges of advanced power systems in the fields of electric aviation, electric propulsion eVTOL, etc., and providing high-reliability and high-safety electric drive systems for future transportation and electric propulsion aircraft.

was originated from a self-developed project launched in mid-2018 by Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Multi-Electric Aircraft, Provincial Engineering Research Center for Aviation Electrification. They are committed to providing power system solutions for electric propulsion aircraft, addressing the crucial challenges of advanced power systems in the fields of electric aviation, electric propulsion eVTOL, etc., and providing high-reliability and high-safety electric drive systems for future transportation and electric propulsion aircraft.

UNNC Design Studio

UNNC Design Studio is a company founded and controlled by the UNNC, committed to providing the society with comprehensive design services based on research, including corporate VI design, product design, interactive design, urban and architectural design, sustainable urban low-carbon green buildings, heritage protection and urban regeneration.

Company philosophy: Backed up by the University of Nottingham Ningbo China; Develop altogether with industry, teaching and research; Empower business and industry; Serve the campus and the society; Interpret the new development concept with innovative architecture and product design; Create a unique pattern of industry-university-research innovative integration.

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