Growing the UK compound semiconductor industry

We are here to deliver long-term economic benefit to the UK, accelerating economic growth wherever the application of compound semiconductors creates a competitive advantage, new products or markets.  

We grow R&D and create new jobs through our technology centres of excellence across the UK, using core technologies and our team’s expertise and know-how to optimise the performance of electronic systems.   

We deliver economic growth by collaborating with industry and academia to provide scale-up support and build new UK supply chains and skills.  

We support UK compound semiconductor clusters through programmes like Driving the Electric Revolution and we work with government to attract foreign direct investment.  

We will continue to grow our commercial income through efficient collaborative research and development, government contracts and by creating spin-out companies.  

Catapults have a significant role in supporting start-ups, SMEs and large organisations to leverage private and public investment in research and development (R&D).

On average, companies we have worked with have attracted an average annual investment of £103.4m from the private sector and £34m from the public sector. Our counterfactual group of companies that we have not worked with have raised, on average, £45.6m annually from the private sector and £9.1m annually from the public sector.

Our impact so far:

• Between 2018 and 2023, three-quarters of projects supported by CSA Catapult have experienced a positive increase in their Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) — a measure of the maturity of a technology – according to an independent report by Harlow Consulting
• 5,831 jobs have been created or safeguarded within organisations that have worked with CSA Catapult to date
• Companies that have engaged with the Catapult have collectively secured, on average, annual private investment of £103.4m and £34m of annual public sector investment