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Building a Business > Technology transfer

Looking for the best way to commercialize your technology, process, or product? Perhaps you want to form a newly created enterprise? Or would it be better to collaborate with another existing business? Technology Transfer offices can provide you with support, assistance, guidance, and help in drawing up collaborative agreements with the business world. Read on to find out more.

Utopia, karma, and reality: three views on sharing resources among multiple institutions
July 2005
Startup managers often find themselves interacting in parallel with multiple technology transfer officers. Organizing these collaborations is easier said than done, so we asked four leading authorities how to go about it to enhance the chances of turning a licensed invention into a commercial success.

Building relationships with technology transfer officers
May 2005
Good relationships between inventors and technology transfer officers can reap dividends at every stage in the marketing of an invention or in forming a company. Conversely, a lack of communication can play into the hands of investors.

U2B: A new model for technology transfer
June 2003
Companies can accelerate their businesses by outsourcing basic research in this new approach to technology transfer.

Marketing biotechnology with a Gallic flair
May 2003
Because French academic science has only recently become entrepreneurial, the challenge for technology transfer has been to market biotechnologies strongly to potential licensees and corporate sponsors.

Commercializing biotechnology in the UK
January 2003
In only five years, the technology transfer arm of Imperial College has launched over 50 companies.

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