Utilisation of research results
Ultimately, you will want to turn your research into capital and ensure that no one else steals your success. The Transfer Office supports you along the entire innovation chain with safeguarding and exploiting research results. The Transfer Office accompanies you from disclosing an invention, to carrying out patent searches in the Patent Information Centre (PIZ), to registering your patent, to marketing and utilising intellectual property rights, to networking with business partners.
Intellectual Property Management (IPM): Advising inventors, registering inventions and software, regulating collaborative inventions, drafting a patent strategy, preparing IP contracts, reviewing and negotiating (licences, purchase option contracts), completing national and international applications for intellectual property rights (IPs), paying out inventors’ compensations.
Transfer management (TM): Conducting discussions on utilisation, carrying out market research and economic potential analyses, identifying fields of application, negotiating with utilisation partners, providing support for spin-offs through entrepreneur-friendly contractual conditions (TUDAG "Dresden Model").
Business Relation Office (BRO): Central contact and coordination point for questions from industrial and economic sectors for research and development projects.
Key Account Management: Establishing and coordinating strategic business cooperations, implementing networking and matching events, supporting commercialisation of research results (editorial aspects, trade fairs, various events).
Patent Information Centre (PIZ): Official cooperation partner of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA), research in the field of intellectual property rights, freedom-to-operate searches.
If your research results prompt you to contemplate establishing a spin-off, TU Dresden's support structure "dresden exists" offers prospective entrepreneurs a comprehensive range of information and training events as well as support throughout the entire start-up process – from drafting initial ideas to preparing a viable business plan and founding the company. The Transfer Office provides support with Intellectual property and exploitation matters, and TU Dresden Aktiengesellschaft TUDAG is also there to assist entrepreneurs as a professional partner.