Independence Statement
As an independent consultancy, our clients can trust us to find the right answers and to tell them the truth.
We don’t market or promote technology of our own — where our research creates new IP, we sell it outright via technology transfers, so we're never left with an ongoing stake in the outcome.
What independence
means in practice
Iconal Technology Ltd provides independent consultancy and services across research and development, technology strategy, test and evaluation and technology transfers.
We are independent of security equipment and system manufacturers and do not market any security equipment of our own, nor do we market, endorse or have a financial interest in any products of third parties.
Research and development
Research and development services are provided to both government and commercial clients. However, we conduct commercial R&D work only outside the security sector, and only when we can be certain there is no overlap or conflict of interest with any government work.
Technology strategy
As with research and development, we conduct strategic research for both commercial and government clients, but we undertake commercial work only within non-security-related industries.
Test and evaluation
Test and evaluation services are provided only to government organisations and to government-sponsored security research projects carried out by other organisations.
The exception to this is the provision of test objects — such as bag sets and liquids-testing sets — which we also supply to academic and commercial organisations where permitted by government sponsors.
Technology transfers
Contract research activities, such as developing early-stage prototypes of new security systems, concepts, and processes, may result in the generation of intellectual property (IP) that may be held by Iconal.
Iconal divests exploitable IP by offering it for sale once the research is complete. Any such IP is sold outright rather than licensed with downstream royalties, so as not to create any ongoing financial relationship with the transferee. In this way, Iconal maximises the creation of new security capabilities from our work while maintaining our independence.