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Licensing your technology

For enterprising academic and research staff
  • What is licensing?
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A researcher wearing a lab coat and safety glasses adjusts a piece of equipment in a lab

Licensing your research to an external organisation can help translate it into societally beneficial products and services

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What is licensing?

What it means to license your research to an external company and the benefits it can bring to you and your research.

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The licensing process

The usual steps involved in taking your invention lab to license deal.

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Rewards to Inventors

51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s scheme to allow inventors at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø to share in the financial rewards of commercialising their research.

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Intellectual Property Policy (College login)

51³Ô¹ÏÍø College IP policy: guidelines for research and innovation protection

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Reward to Inventors Scheme PDF (College login)

Full policy version of the 'Reward to Inventors scheme'

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Natural Killer: Biotech licensing collaboration

How 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Enterprise helped an 51³Ô¹ÏÍø academic to partner with an innovative biotechnology company.

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