TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT

Technology transfer office support - Releasing Commercial Potential
Academic institutions are in increasing regional and global competition to establish a track record of successful technology spin-offs into commercial ventures. A vibrant business start-up environment attracts top-notch faculty and students. Ventac partners provide support to academic institutions, faculties, technology transfer organizations and researchers in all areas of commercialization of science.

	We help in developing programs, commercialization policies and university handbooks
	We provide solid data on market potential, market structures and mechanisms, and competitor analyses
	We advise on commercial scenarios
	We provide support in establishing and developing intellectual property strategies
	We make sure that the intellectual property matches the business opportunity
	We define a concise concept, prepare and prioritize a list of target partners for licensing
	We support you in evaluating prospective deals such as joint ventures and strategic alliances
	We serve as your professional resource in approaching and negotiating with deal partners
	We provide selected due diligence services and establish agreement documents based on international terms.

 

Dede Willis,
Partner
Ventac Partners are continuously approached by entrepreneurs, university technology transfer officers, and industry for the purpose of evaluating new business opportunities. In special cases, and if a business opportuntiy fits our portfolio strategy, we offer our team services against founder stock to reduce initial cost.

Typical examples of our services to major universities in the United States and Europe include spin out companies, large and smaller licensing deals, conglomerate collaboration agreements between Centers of Excellence and industry, patenting strategies and patenting advice and evaluations, technology and early market assessments, R&D planning and liaison activities between university and external contract research organizations to advance early university stage projects to commercial value stage, and trade sale transactions.

Pieter Telleman, PhD,
MBA Senior Advisor
Our team of Ventac Partners is viewing research projects at universities with the experience and insight from both the science organization and business angle. Every member of our team has been involved in various aspects of commercialization of university technology for more than a decade, and collectively we have produced more than fifteen new business opportunities out of ground breaking research projects. Accordingly, our team has the experience to interact and collaborate with the individual researcher, the technology transfer office as well as with industry on their respective terms.