Technology Transfer Office operations

Get familiar with our operation-system.

Role of TTO

  • Laboratories will be entered into a database including their most important tasks, equipment, applied technologies and free services they have to offer
  • In university database industrial partners can search for service providers and services free of charge
  • TTO assures quality work and payment for both parties

Goals

• To extend University knowledge-base and competitiveness
• To enhance appeal of University positions among researchers
• To enhance appeal of University as a R&D partner within industry • To encourage product-oriented innovative approach and entrepreneurship throughout University and its social-economical environment
• To trigger birth of products and services resulting from intellectual work useful for society • To ensure grants and internal tenders for projects supported by University or TTO • To create high-tech jobs to enhance scientific cooperations between exploiting companies and other organizations, institutions • To provide seed capital for the establishment of exploiting companies

How does TTO gather projects, who helps in auditing?

• TTO actively searches for ideas and findings
• By using external experts TTO analyses the protection possibilities of intellectual property • It analyses potential profitability of new ideas
• Keeps ongoing relationship with patent agents

Benefits for researchers

• Help in finding potential customers
• Help in establishing companies, thus making use of intellectual work • Advise throughout the process of establishing exploiting companies
• Trainings about protection of industrial property, innovations management, business model and business plan topics • Support and personal consulting
• Up-to-date website

What does service-system mean?

• TTO has finished measuring up University knowledge-base and has entered results in a database
• With the permission of laboratories potential industrial partners can receive the data on knowledge-base
• After an industrial partner has defined the required task TTO contacts the desired laboratory
• TTO signs contracts with both parties
• TTO oversees matters regarding agreed payment and controls work to be done

Basic types of industrial-university relationships

• Collaboration research: industrial partner finances a University research program or a specified task by itself or as part of a grant consortium, which will be carried out by the University and industrial partner together, using well defined division of labor (basic- and applied research)
• Payed research: industrial partner finances a specified task which will be carried out by University (applied research) • Sponsored research: industrial partner donates funds for a University research program where outcome can not be predefined (basic research)

Advantages of building industrial-university relationships through TTO

• Laboratories will be entered into a database free of charge along with their most important tasks, equipment and applied techniques
• Industrial partners can look for desired services in University database free of charge
• TTO ensures quality work and agreed payment for both parties