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University of Wageningen: Innovative food production
The small Dutch town that wants to shape the future of your food
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Understanding why some patents get licensed…while others do not
Technology licensing is an activity where the owner of a patent (the licensor) allows another party (the licensee) the rights to use, adapt and commercialize that patent in exchange for compensation.
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Monodisperse microbubbles produce ultra-clear ultrasound images
Traditional imaging techniques used to be a bane to patients concerned about their long-term health and finances. With the patented microfluidic technique introduced by Tide Microfluidics in medical imaging, such issues may finally be a thing of the past.
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The Value of Open Innovation
Open innovation asserts that a company or organization should make greater use of external ideas in its business and allow its own ideas to go out beyond its own boundaries to others to use in their businesses
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The MAGIC for Successful Technology Transfer
In a perfect world of licensing, TTOs may dream of a discovery licensed to a medical company, which continues developing it until it has established proof-of-concept in humans.
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The Keys to Successful Technology In-Licensing
In designing new products and services, companies consider licensing technology as a means of getting to market quickly while reducing risk as well as the expenditure associated with the development stage.
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Good pitch: a key skill for those seeking investment
At the Cambridge Postdoc Enterprise Competition grand finale on 27 October the quality of the finalists’ pitches was vital to their chances of success.
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The evolution of tech transfer in Ireland 2006-2016
Author of this blog, Tom Flanagan is Director of Enterprise and Commercialisation at NovaUCD University College Dublin and a member of ASTP’s Professional Development Committee.
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Success for SMEs on the Invest Horizon programme
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are vital to the European economy and account for a massive 99% of all businesses in the EU.
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STORM® Skills Training Science steps in to prevent suicides
Finally, a research programme at the University of Manchester put together evidence-based skills training to equip people to detect and address suicidal tendencies.
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Staying afloat - how micro TTOs can best use their resources
Technology transfer is an exciting and growing field, but there is naturally a great variety in maturity of operations, both between countries and individual institutions.
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Some observations of a peripatetic tech transfer agent
‘Technology Transfer Associate?’ the border agent will typically ask, scanning my landing card. ‘What do you actually do?’ and ‘Does such a job actually exist?’