Transnational Transfer of Technology

Technology offer portal

The European Commission supported project “Trans2Tech“ aims at fostering Transnational Technology Transfer (TTT) throughout Europe by improving the marketing of technologies at the level of both supply and demand.

Particularly, activities of Trans2Tech focus on the improvement of the promotion and commercialization of innovations, whatever the scientific domains, from European academic research towards Industry.

Trans2Tech would be interesting to either the Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) in charge of the results of the European academic research (Public Research Organizations -PROs, Universities, High Educational Institutes -HEIs, etc.), and the private sector (start-ups, SMEs, large companies, VCs, etc.), respectively.

Trans2Tech aims to strengthen the link between the European academic research, the high-tech industry and intermediaries via the development with a pan-European electronic portal offering them a structured view over technological opportunities coming out of academic research in Europe.

This one-stop shop allows an entrepreneur to contact the licensing-out officer in charge of a technology offer selected in the Trans2Tech database in order to get additional information, and hopefully to develop business.

Organizations in charge of the Tech' Transfer of academic results in Europe are invited to read the legal notice of the website, and contact the webmaster for any request. Only one representative/responsible per organization can be registered as Technology Offer Provider. Once the subscription form submitted, a login and password will be addressed to this contact person who will be able to activate the user account of the organization in order to create, modify or delete technology offers.

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The specifications of the Trans2Tech web portal include:

• Only academic innovations from PROs, Universities, HEIs, etc. are promoted towards Industry through technology offers (TOs) based on patents, referenced biological materials, software and database;
• Use of a standard form for the description of the innovation, including the assignment of technological categories and industrial application domains, as well as the contact of the licensing-out officer in charge of the TO; Trans2Tech Technology offer form Trans2Tech technology categories Trans2Tech application domains
• Easy integration in the Trans2Tech database of TOs using an administrative form available online;
• Retrieval of TOs using a tree diagram (technological categories; application domains) or a search engine;
• Connection to European TT offices, networks and initiatives;

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The added-values brought by the Trans2Tech web portal include:

• Development and integration of the web portal based on an open-source platform;
• Pan-European website gathering TOs from academic research only;
• Same visibility of the TOs, whatever their national origins;
• All fields of research are present in the TO database;
• Design of a standard form to address TOs;
• Semantic and full text analysis of the Trans2Tech database; suggestion of intuitive clusters of TOs;
• Time-efficiency and friendly user;
• Opportunity for pro-active European TT offices to promote their innovations and develop their business;
• Free service for TO providers as well as technology end-users;
• Trans2Tech is just a relay of information between academic research and Industry.

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For further information about this initiative, please contact the Trans2Tech partners, notably Mr. Franck Le Guerhier, webmaster of this technology offer web portal:

INRA Transfert
10, rue Vivienne
75002 PARIS, France
Phone : 33 (0) 1 55 35 26 39
Fax : 33 (0) 1 55 35 26 46
Email : Franck.LeGuerhier@paris.inra.fr