Midlands Innovation brings together the research, knowledge and capabilities of its eight partner universities, in what is the largest formal collaboration between technology transfer offices (TTOs) in the UK. The MICRA programme is the Commercialisation of Research Accelerator – we are building a spin-out and start-up ecosystem that will significantly increase the innovation productivity of the region, and will help to accelerate the speed at which the innovations developed by these world-class centres of research can reach markets and make an impact.