Technologies
All the Norwich Research Park partner institutions have positive policies regarding the protection and exploitation of novel technologies and discoveries arising from their research. The protected inventions are available for licence by companies who would like to take advantage of the latest advances and incorporate them into their products or services.
Three organisations on the Norwich Research Park are responsible for much of the technology transfer business:
Plant Bioscience Ltd
PBL
is the technology transfer and IP management company of the John Innes Centre, the Sainsbury Laboratory and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. PBL provides comprehensive IP and innovation management services to these institutions and other NRP organisations including the Institute of Food Research.
PBL invests in and develops emerging technologies from public research organisations worldwide - turning ideas into patented, scientifically validated and licensable technologies, and in certain cases establishing spin-out companies. PBL also works closely with companies seeking to develop innovations emerging from NRP research. PBL covers AgBiotech, Food / Nutrition, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Pharma and related Life Science industries.
PBL provides life science companies and investors with a range of IP services covering: IP assessment, patent management, IP strategy, IP due diligence and more. Please click here for more information.
UEA - Research Enterprise and Engagement
Research Enterprise and Engagement at the University of East Anglia provide access to discoveries and new technologies developed by their scientists. The Enterprise & Commercialisation Group within REE manages the evaluation and protection of new ideas and inventions, new venture (spin-out) formation and the licensing of technologies. REE can also link companies to a wide range of business expertise through the UEA's Norwich Business School and School of Computing Sciences.
Health Enterprise East
Innovations developed by consultants, other medical staff and researchers at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital are managed by Health Enterprise East. HEE provides a broad range of professional IP management services to NHS Trusts across the East of England. HEE is funded by the Department of Health, Department of Trade & Industry and East of England Development Agency.
Last Updated: 08/07/2010 16:22