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Intellectual Property Commercialization Strategy

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Bringing products from the lab to marketplace successfully is easier said than done. NRC-CISTI can provide continued, reliable and high-value information on global R&D advances, business trends and market demands that it will help you invest in human and financial resources wisely in all areas from R&D program management to commercialization. Provides insights and action-oriented information to support Intellectual Property (IP) related decisions and/or technology transfer and technology commercialization activities: develop effective business strategies in commercializing R&D results with Canadian firms.

Some of the key benefits:

  • Confirms the innovation potential of a technology and potential areas of application.
  • Provides an overview of the IP landscape before initiating R&D projects.
  • Gives access to relevant information to support the course of actions needed to bring an innovation project to commercial success.
  • Gives access to key information to develop optimal technology transfer and commercialization strategies.

Strategic Technical Information Analysis (STIA): Highly trained and experienced NRC-CISTI information analysts who, with the help of cutting-edge software applications:

  • screen patent information and scientific, technical and business databases;
  • identify "who" is doing "what";
  • clean and organize data to avoid misinterpretation;
  • validate and cross-reference the content; and
  • analyze the data and information to highlight patterns and trends.

NRC-CISTI also offers Competitive Technical Intelligence (CTI) services. Technical Business Analysts (TBA) and Information Specialists (IS), with a high level of training and extensive experience, work together to provide customized analysis of large volumes of published and unpublished sources of information that relate to your areas of R&D. Theycan help in:

  • identifying similar projects around the globe
  • suggesting which applications of your technology might be most profitable in the marketplace
  • listing potential collaborators and partners
  • encouraging or discouraging technology acquisition, partnering and/or R&D investments

This service is offered through NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) and NRC Technology Clusters initiatives.



Date Modified: 2008-07-16
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