Innovaro Pharmalicensing is a global resource for partnering, licensing, and business development in the life science and biopharmaceutical industries. Its services are designed to contribute to business development across the deal-making process – from finding partners to closing the deal.

With over twelve years experience, Pharmalicensing provides a rich set of connections across the life science between companies, research laboratories and universities.

Pharmalicensing offers business intelligence reports,  partnering search, licensing in, licensing out, company profiling, through to full consultancy including deal negotiation services.

Innovaro Pharmalicensing website may be accessed here.

The EU Technology Market offers 12 thousand technology offers and over 3 thousand technology requests.

Information is divided into sectors to facilitate easy searching.

API’s are provided to allow you to serve relevant technology profiles to your own website, if desired.

Originally created in 2003 by the University of British Columbia, Flintbox has been acquired by  Wellspring Worldwide in 2010 and has transformed the system into a software platform that creates a collaborative community. Flintbox claims over 10,000 registered users and 200 different organizations across six continents.

Wellspring relaunched the new Flintbox in April 2010 as a platform for developing relationships and driving collaboration in the innovation community.

The Office of Technology Transition Partnership Intermediary Network (OTTPIN) provides a web portal to foster interactions between intermediaries and help them to track tech transfer agreements, leads and deals.

It consists of several resources:

• TechLink helps the Department of Defense to commercialize leading-edge technologies by partnering DoD Labs with private sector companies for technology licensing, transfer, and research and development.
• FirstLink helps the Department of Defense connect with private sector companies and entrepreneurs to commercialize technologies for our nation’s First Responders.
• DoD TechMatch is a national system that helps businesses find many opportunities to perform Research & Development (R&D) for the Department of Defense (DoD).
• T2Bridge is a technology acceleration program designed to solve defense needs through development, transfer, transition, and commercialization of defense sponsored innovation.
• The Institute for Defense and Homeland Security (IDHS) is an organization of university, industry and federal research and development members dedicated to delivering world-class science and technology solutions in response to national defense and homeland security requirements.

The sites enable search for technology available for licensing, patents for a variety of industry areas, technology opportunities and abstracts, as well as information about news stories and technology transfer.

B-Bridge Technology Transfer is a web site connecting innovations to commercialization opportunities by providing a free searchable database of new developments, discoveries, and other intellectual property. Featuring technologies from world-leading institutions, this portal provides opportunities for both businesses and inventors to find partners to help market new developments.

For readers interested in finding new technologies, the B-Bridge site offers a searchable database by keywords, industries, and market opportunities. Additional information can be obtained directly from inventors by posting a message to a private bulletin board .

Inventors present their available technology and upload supporting information, photos, and movies. This site focusses predominantly on bio-technologies.

This website was launched in April 2009 by B-Bridge International, Inc. Headquartered in Mountain View, California.

University-Technology.com is a portal set up by 13 Universities of Scotland to promote technologies generated by Scotland’s academic researchers.

The site provides a showcase where all Scottish universities’ new technologies and business opportunities are listed.

The site is a collaborative project between the technology transfer offices of the participating universities and was launched in 2004.

The site offers users a searchable database where new technology opportunities are featured, the database of opportunities can be searched by keyword and sector. Furthermore the site also provides RSS feeds and email updates by preferred technology sector.

University Technology works collaboratively with the following institutions:

• Aberdeen University
• University of Abertay Dundee
• University of Dundee
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow
• Glasgow Caledonian University
• Heriot-Watt University
• Napier University Edinburgh
• Robert Gordon University
• University of St Andrews
• University of Stirling
• University of Strathclyde
• University of West of Scotland

The iBridge Network is an online community enabling universities, companies and entrepreneurs to connect, collaborate and license research results, products and services. Many US universities use the iBridge Network to promote, share and advance their innovations and identify partners.

As of mid May 2010 the Network has over 100 organisations as members and lists 12,600 inventions.

The iBridge Network seeks to help researchers by:

• Promoting their research to companies, research sponsors and entrepreneurs
• Positioning them as experts in their fields
• Sharing their research tools and materials
• Find existing research tools and best practices

The iBridge Network seeks to help universities to:

• License their innovations, technologies and materials
• Promote to potential research sponsors and collaborators
• Increase the number of external connections to the university
• Highlight their researchers’ as experts in their fields.

The iBridge Network seeks to help companies and entrepreneurs that are interested in:

• Accessing, at one site, a pool of research capabilities from many US universities
• Identifying research partners
• locating existing intellectual property.

The site lists projects under 32 subject headings and currently has 8 innovation hubs that list all projects relevant from an array of different technology domains to a focussed need.

The iBridge Network’s strength is its coverage of US institutions.  There are many other information sources that cover other US universities and corporate sources of open innovation components. Given its US centric membership the Network is a nice complement for Science|Business which covers 18 European universities.

The iBridge Network is beginning to attract international membership with Singapore institutions and a Canadian research hospital network recently linking in.

One of the common outcomes from technology roadmapping is the identification of capability gaps that need to be filled in order to deliver the entire solution to a problem. You might care to consider adding the iBridge Network database when next you are seeking to fill a gap.

One of the common outcomes from technology roadmapping is the identification of capability gaps that need to be filled in order to deliver the entire solution to a problem – from the customer perspective. This is the first in a series of articles identifying organisations that are world class sources of innovation components.

You might care to consider searching the Science|Business database of technologies available for licensing or early stage equity deals when next you are seeking to fill a gap.

Science|Business is an independent news service that provides information on deals, partnerships and business opportunities in the world of science. It provides a free email bulletins and a paid annual subscription.

Science|Business is dedicated to encouraging innovative technology, open innovation, new product innovations and information about strategic management of technology innovation.

The mission of Science|Business is to provide an information bazaar to help people learn about each other, and connect  - across institutions, across borders and across disciplines.

Currently over 1200 Business Leads (technologies available for licensing) are posted to a searchable database that provides abstracts facilitating quick scanning and assessment. In addition, equity investments in member originated companies are notified via the Early-Stage Deals link.

The members are:

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the largest university in Greece.

Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. A pioneer in spin-out incubation.

Delft University of Technology, A leader in technology innovation.

ESADE Business School

ETH-Zürich. Einstein’s alma mater, 21 Nobel prizes.

Imperial College London. A leader in international science & engineering, 14 Nobel prizes.

INSEAD The Business School for the World

Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. A leading biomedical university, names the Nobel in physiology or medicine.

NTNU – the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.

ParisTech, A science and technology research and higher education cluster of excellence, comprising France’s 11 engineering school Grandes Écoles.

Politecnico di Milano, A leader in science and engineering.

SetSquared Partnership, (Universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton & Surrey)

University of Cambridge, 80 Nobel prizes.

University College London, 18 Nobel prizes.

University of Warwick. One of the UK’s top five research universities.

K.U. Leuven. K.U. Leuven was founded in 1425 and caters today for more than 33,000 students. With a budget of €1.3Bn it strongly focuses on top level research. The technology transfer office, K.U. Leuven Research & Development, has operated since 1972, and has overseen the incorporation and provided guidance to more than 80 spin-out companies (several of which have become quoted companies) as well as managing a large patent portfolio.

EuropaBio. The European biotechnology industry association.

London Technology Network. Association of technology leaders.

London Biotechnology Network. An association of biotechnology entrepreneurs and leaders.

EBAN – European Business Angel Network.

ProTon Europe. The pan-European knowledge transfer network.

Scottish Enterprise Proof of Concept Programme. Supporting the pre-commercialisation of leading-edge technologies emerging from Scotland’s universities, research institutes and NHS Boards.

Technology Strategy Board Advises the UK government on how to remove barriers to innovation and accelerate the exploitation of new technologies.

Alexander Innovation Zone. The regional development agency of Thessaloniki, Greece.