This document discusses methods for detecting and monitoring technology transfer opportunities from research. It describes practices like monitoring researchers' consulting activities, managing partnerships with industry, and using surveys to evaluate partnerships and detect opportunities. It also discusses workshops that bring together researchers and external stakeholders to identify commercialization possibilities from interdisciplinary projects and facilitate translating research results into marketable products and services. The overall goal is to capitalize on connections with industry, ensure intellectual property protection, and promote exchange of knowledge and innovations.

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3. Detection and Monitoring in practice
Main elements of the process
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4. Detection and Monitoring in practice
Data collection
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5. Process Detection and Monitoring
Practices available in the toolbox
DETECTION of transfer opportunities
 Researchers’ Consulting
CREATION OF
DETECTION AND Activities
TRANSFER
MONITORING  Partnership Management
AWARENESS
 Partnership Agreement IPR
Guidelines
 Partnership Satisfaction
and Impact Survey
EVALUATION OF  Invention Disclosure
TRANSFER  Valorisation Opportunity
PROJECTS Workshops
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6. Researchers’ Consulting Activities
 Researchers provide consultancy to industrial companies, considered as
a private activity
 Consulting may involve technology or know-how transfer, as well as
development of assets, in particular when a researcher is not conscious of IPR
issues
 TT officers have interest in monitoring these activities to exploit transfer
opportunities arising from contacts with industry and to ensure protection of IPR
 The practice presents a scheme of actions which allows to:
 be up-to-date with every consulting project
 to examine the scope of contracts
 to change the initial agreement or to propose a new one
 to follow-up their realization
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7. Partnerships
 Research partnerships increase transfer possibilities and are sources of innovation
 Special focus on partnerships with industrial companies: market oriented, high
potential of technology transfer opportunities emerging from the collaboration
 Partnership Management – overview of different types of partners and levels of
collaboration, which determine the choice of strategy and commitment, as well as the
form of arrangement between the partners
 Partnership Agreement IPR Guidelines – guidelines for negotiating partnership
agreements, which set up the terms and conditions of future technology transfer
operations, in particular concerning IPR issues; the guidelines should be in line with
the research organisation’s policy concerning industrial collaborations
 Partnership Satisfaction and Impact Survey – satisfaction survey enable to
identify weak and strong points of partnerships and to bring improvements to future
collaborations; impact assessment – enable the in-depth evaluation and policy
definition
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8. Valorisation Opportunity Workshop
 ICON projects: interdisciplinary collaborative projects between IBBT research
teams and various types of external stakeholders
 The ICON Valorisation Workshop of IBBT aims at:
 detection of valorisation opportunities from the research project results
 defining the valorisation plan within the consortium
 They are organised for partners from the projects in the mid way or at its ends
 One day workshop with a business school expert has a well-defined format
and follows a prescribed checklist to asses the research results
 It is an efficient way to translate demand-driven collaborative research projects
into marketable products and services
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9. Invention Disclosure
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10. Suggested Readings
 Link to bibliography
 Link to code book
Research result
Invention, Invention disclosure, Inventor
Technology Transfer Office
Research contract
Transfer opportunity
Deal flow
 Link to relevant websites
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