1. How Academic “Eggheads” Lay
Golden Eggs
A Case Study
Prof. Shlomo Maital
EU - Israel Seminar on Technology Transfer
25-26 November 2012
Hotel Leonardo - Ramat Gan, Israel

2. Tech Transfer Is VERY Very Difficult: WHY?
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3. Robert Langer, with a young scientist
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4. Optical Physics Prof. Steve Lipson
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6. Strategic Partnership
based on the
Academia “Golden Egg”
 Complement Product Line  Shorter Time to Market
 New Technology  Risk Reduction
 Potential Increase of  Financial Resources
Market Share
Bio-Rad ProteOptics
o US company o Israeli start-up
o 1.3 $ Billion sales o Originated at the Technion
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7. The Product
“Golden Nugget”
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8. “Israeli BioTech Golden Eggs”
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ Sales
$ $ Revenue
Scientists
Entrepreneurs
Startup Companies
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9. Is This Just a Fluke?
CI Systems - infra-red test equipment for labs
ASI Applied Spectral Imaging – spectral
technology to color images quantitatively,
beyond the basic red/green/blue of digital
cameras
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10. Sniffing Cancer: Man’s Best Friend

11. Advice for Academics
* Find talented „matchmakers‟
* Give them small sums (BIRD-F)
* Assign them to seek potential „golden eggs‟ in
universities
* Assign them to seek strategic partners at
home and abroad
* Aspire to create strategic partnerships
Strategic partners are superior to financial
investors
* Identify researchers (rare ones) good at doing
cutting-edge basic research AND at seeing how
their science might become winning technologies