Services

Taking all things into consideration formulating best business model to achieve client’s objectives is our objective when we serve you. Our service could be simple advice or better yet we can help you arrive at that optimum model by deploying one or more of our other services.

TechIAConnect has an extensive “Rolodex” consisting of thousands of contacts world-wide in the academic, for-profit, government and venture capital communities. This combined with a community of networks enables us to identify potential matches for any technology transfer, licensing or collaborative purpose.

With extensive industrial and academic experience we can assist you in Drafting the right RFP and finding the right company/university match, identify the best means of working together (e.g., unrestricted grants, sponsored research, etc), and if asked to, develop and assist negotiating the right agreement.

We are Certified Licensing Professionals that can help you and any or all stages of the licensing process. Whether is deciding if an IP should be licensed exclusively, exclusively  field-specific, or non-exclusively we can help make a sensible choice. Likewise, perhaps you are looking to developing a licensing strategy that will deploy existing and future IP as developed over a period of time. We can help you out there too.  We do not restrict our activity to any particular technology area. With broad individual experience across many sectors and with the assistance of network partners we do everything from life sciences to advanced materials. This applies to both in and out licenses.

Key to any successful license or collaborative arrangement is the RIGHT agreement. Armed with extensive benchmark and hands-on experience TechIAConnect can help you develop an agreement that meets your needs. Whether they are master agreements or case-specific sponsored research agreements we can help you identify the right terms to protect your interests. The goal is arrive at a win-win situation in a reasonable period of time.

The growing interest in corporate alignment with the academic community to accelerate innovation has moved sponsored research agreements or collaborative agreements in some cases, to a high profile of interest amongst tech transfer professionals. Extracting commercial value while preserving the respective mission of the university, navigating policy issues, and overcoming misconceptions of value (both sides) are a few of the hurdles that have made completing these agreements in a timely way, if at all, challenging. Existing forums and relatively new ones encouraged by the Federal Government (UIDP.org) have been addressing this issue as a necessary ingredient to accelerating innovation through university participation. Progress has and is being made. TechIAConnect has been in the middle of this from the get go. We offer to assist any client contemplating or in the middle of completing such an agreement. We are not only able to use our own knowledge base and experience but we belong to the aforesaid forums and have links to many key thought people on this subject in both sectors. Given what you want to achieve, we can do a reality check, help you avoid mistakes of others in the past and speed you along the way towards completing an agreement in a timely manner.