Join the MIT Technology Licensing Office and MIT Libraries for a free series of virtual seminars on Intellectual Property in January 2021. In this series, you’ll hear from experts from MIT and other organizations in the Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem who will share their knowledge and best practices on IP topics including: patents, patent counsel, technology transfer, copyright and software, conflict of interest, research tools to support innovation strategy, public domain, author rights, grant funding programs, and more!
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What is Tech Transfer?
Technology transfer is the movement of knowledge and discoveries to the general public. It can occur through publications graduating students entering the workforce, presentations at conferences, and research relationships with industry. For the TLO, however, technology transfer refers to the formal licensing of MIT owned intellectual property to third parties such as start-up companies or corporations.
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The process of technology transfer involves the initial submission to the TLO of a new technology which has arisen from research or activity undertaken by MIT employees. The process then moves to evaluation, potential patenting, marketing and licensing the intellectual property to third parties.
Learn MoreAnnual update
Each year the TLO publishes information on its technology transfer activity including disclosures received, patents submitted and filed, startups launched, and royalty revenue received.
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