| Technology
Transfer Objective |
Task on Behalf of Client |
Potential Benefit to the Client |
Examples |
| License-In New Products |
Identify new products that clients can
license for manufacturing or distribution. |
Client expands product offering, increases
competitiveness and profitability. |
Identified an innovative industrial
filtration system that expanded a client's product line, resulting in new multi-million
dollar business. |
| License -In New Technologies |
Identify specific technologies that clients
can acquire or license. |
Client expands technology offering,
increases technical efficiency and profitability. |
Identified "best-of-breed"
technology to bond metal catalyst to Proton Exchange Membrane for automotive industry
application. |
| License-Out Products and Technologies |
Assess where a clients technology or
product fits in market, identify players, develop documentation, make representation to
prospective licensees. |
Greater revenue, greater market
diversification, greater return on investment. |
Helped environmental engineering client
find partners for a zero-discharge sludge management system |
| Use Technology Intelligence Effectively |
Technology Scans |
New business, investment opportunities. |
Doubled pharmaceutical client's knowledge
of current research in specific technical areas. Effort resulted in technology joint
venture. |
