Over 50 patents have been filed since 2002 through InnovationRCA’s Selected Works Programme. Patents for SmartSlab have been awarded in the UK (three pending) and overseas (11 pending).

Four innovations have been licensed to industrial partners: sound transformation technology, plastic cutlery, a device to help older people take tablets and a kitchen appliance to make smoothies inside the unbroken skin of an orange. Since 2001 income from licensing has reached £300,000. The RCA holds an equity share in four companies formed by Industrial Design Engineering graduates to commercialise products designed at the RCA: Future Acoustic LLP, Crawford Brewin Ltd, Snowbone Ltd and Sensixa.

The Triangle Projects with Imperial College London Innovations have resulted in six medical and fitness products being researched and developed for licensing or spin-out since 2004.

From 2003, over £50,000 has been generated through Challenge workshops with the Design Business Association for industry both nationally and internationally, including partnerships with Proctor & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser, Toto, Japan, Kyoto University, Japan, Department of Systems Engineering and Holon Academic Institute of Technology, Israel. The biennial international Include conference on inclusive design transferring knowledge to business and public bodies generates £50,000 per annum.

Consultancies have generated additional income, including inclusive design websites for British Telecom and the RSA; knowledge cells on workplace design, inclusive design with the Design Council and publications with the NHS National Patient Safety Agency on information labelling for pharmaceutical packs and injectable medicines and on the future of the ambulance; two London Development Agency Secondment into Knowledge awards have been awarded jointly to the RCA for Capoco Design, an SME automotive design consultancy to gain knowledge on developing future mobility systems.