Find Partners For Your Institution
STEP 1
Sign up for a free seedsprint account for your institution.
seedsprint is free for research labs, TTOs and new ventures units, and the platform lets you harness your institution’s entire innovation ecosystem – from research to IP portfolio to new ventures – for higher industry visibility.
STEP 2
Create a profile for your institution.
Our handy profile templates make it easy to highlight institutional strengths so tech scouts find what they want and follow us with you directly. Use your existing content and our templates and API to save time, and let your ecosystem sparkle.
STEP 3
Harness your ecosystem's power - join the community and dialogue.
Sign in and browse industry profiles, or use our tech scout database to find potential partners. Spot one? Send a secure message or a profile of a technology, startup or research lab to tech scout. Get the ball rolling.
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Agoranov
Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) Technology Transfer
Andes Pacific Technology Access – APTA
Aquitaine Science Transfert
Ariel University R&D Co., Ltd.
Arizona State University Technology Enterprises (AzTE)
Ben Gurion Negev (BGN Technologies)
Binghamton Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Partnerships
BIRAD R&D at Bar Ilan University
BloodCenter of Wisconsin Technology Transfer Office
Brigham Young University Tech Transfer
California Institute of Technology Technology Transfer & Corporate Partnerships
Cambridge Enterprise
CTT Politechnika Krakowska
Cornell University Center for Technology Licensing
Clean Energy Trust
Chonnam National University Industry Liaison Office
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Office of Technology Transfer
Chemconserve
ChemCeption
Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM)
Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2)
Cape Breton University Industry Partnerships
Dartmouth College Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer
CTT Politechnika Krakowska
Cornell University Center for Technology Licensing
Clean Energy Trust
Chonnam National University Industry Liaison Office
Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology (DHS S&T)
East Carolina University
Ecole Technologie Superieure
Emerald Technology Ventures
Emory University Office of Technology Transfer
Ensemble Ventures
Florida Atlantic University
Florida State University Office of Commercialization
Georg-August-University MBM ScienceBridge
George Washington University
Georgetown University Office of Technology Commercialization
Georgia Institute of Technology VentureLab
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Greentown Labs
Imperial College London – Imperial Innovations
Inserm and InsermTransfert
Istanbul Sehir University Technology Transfer Office
National Cancer Institute Technology Transfer Center
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH NHLBI) Office of Technology Transfer and Development
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Technology Transfer
Northeastern University Center for Research Innovation
North Shore InnoVentures
NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) Technology Transfer Center
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT/NJII) Enterprise Development Center
NeurATRIS
Oregon State University Office for Commercialization & Corporate Development (OCCD)
Ohio University Technology Transfer Office
Office of Technology Commercialization and Industry Engagement at Baylor University
Pennsylvania State (Penn State) Center for Medical Innovation
Penn Center for Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
Sadosky Foundation
The University of Georgia Innovation Gateway
Salk Institute Office of Technology Development
SATT SUD-EST Technology Transfer
Science Center
Sinai Health System, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Technology Transfer
STC.UNM University of New Mexico
Syracuse University Office of Technology Transfer
Tech Launch Arizona at The University of Arizona
Tecnologico de Monterrey Technology Transfer
Texas Tech University Office of Research Commercialization
The University of Manitoba Technology Transfer Office
Trendlines
Univalor
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
University of Adelaide Enterprise
University of Alabama Office for Technology Transfer
University of Alberta TEC Edmonton
University of California Berkeley Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances
University of California Davis
University of California Irvine Invention Transfer Group
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Technology Development Group
University of California Merced Office of Research and Economic Development
University of Maine Office of Innovation and Economic Development
University of Maryland Office of Technology Commercialization
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Memphis Office of Technology Transfer
University of Minnesota (UMN) Twin Cities Office for Technology Commercialization
University of Nebraska-Lincoln NUTech Ventures
University of Newcastle Innovation
University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNC Wilmington) Office of Innovation and Commercialization
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Office of Commercialization and Economic Development
University of North Dakota Intellectual Property Commercialization & Economic Development Office
University of Oklahoma Office of Technology Development
University of Ottawa and Affiliated Hospitals Innovation Support Services
University of Pardubice
University of Pennsylvania (Penn Vet) School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute
University of Silesia in Katowice SPIN-US
University of Texas at Dallas Office of Technology Commercialization
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Technology Transfer
University of Toledo (UT) Technology Transfer
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Research Foundation, Inc.
UTC Daniel Thomas Innovation Centre at the Sorbonne
Vanderbilt University Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (CTTC)
Wake Forest Innovations
Washington State University (WSU) Office of Commercialization
Washington University in St. Louis Office of Technology Managemen
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WVU Health Sciences Innovation Center – West Virginia University
Yale University Office of Cooperative Research
Yeda Research and Development Company at the Weizmann Institute of Science
Yissum Technology Transfer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Marketing your institution’s technologies creates undeniable benefits for your university.
Open innovation is evolving constantly, and so is your institution’s research. The limited technology transfer networks of the past may be ill-suited to your institution’s needs.
By making your technologies visible to new partners, you help demonstrate the commercial value of your institution’s research. You also help get groundbreaking research out into the world faster – so that it can start making a difference in peoples’ lives.
Learn more about about how to create new licensing and sponsored research opportunities for your institution.
As industry invests less in internal R&D, they are facing a greater need to partner with universities on targeted research and product development.
Publicizing patents available for license – and promoting your institution’s startups and research labs – can help attract new industry partners that you may not have worked with before.
How to start? First, posting technologies on your institution’s website is an essential first step. Second, in today’s digital environment, new apps – like seedsprint – are an easy way for industry to view technologies at hundreds of institutions at a time. Make a free profile so that your institution’s research can be found by industry.
In a recent survey by the publication Nature, 47% of researchers said that they were open to leaving academia and forming a startup to commercialize their research.
Yet most never do so. One reason? 53% of survey respondents said that lack of business skills was a barrier to creating the businesses they imagine.
The gulf between academia and industry can seem vast. If you are a researcher with entrepreneurial ambitions – or if you support faculty with venture creation – you know that supporting new ventures is a rewarding, but challenging endeavor.
Learn more about how to help motivate faculty to commercialize their research.
University technology transfer staff and faculty entrepreneurs may find that academic and industry norms are often at odds.
Some researchers hold the misconception that filing for a patent makes it impossible to publish the same research in a scientific journal – or that if research has already been published, it can’t be patented. Neither is necessarily true.
Read more about how to get started in technology commercialization as a researcher – and how to guide faculty if you promote commercialization at your institution.