Researchers
From idea to transfer, AxLR assists and funds your projects
SATT AxLR specializes in creating pathways to bridge the gap between technologies produced in public-sector research laboratories and the socio-economic world in order to help researchers generate value from their results. SATT AxLR serves as a privileged point-of-contact for researchers on all issues related to technology transfer, intellectual property, and promotion.
From laboratory to prototype, SATT AxLR guides you through all the facets of technology transfer. We stand by your side along every step of the value generation process.
- Building, assisting, and funding your innovative projects
- Protecting your inventions, know-how, software, databases, corpus, royalties, and more
- Transferring innovations from your academic research laboratories to the industrial world
- Creating your startup
After a project is selected, we provide support across all phases leading to commercialization. There are generally two options:
- The innovation can lead to the creation of a startup via incubation
- The innovation can be transferred to an existing company to increase its competitiveness
- Protecting your inventions
- Protecting your know-how
- Protecting your software and databases
- Protecting your corpus and human and social science results
The first step in an industrial protection process for public-sector research is to fully describe results and know-how. SATT AxLR provides you with a template form based on the nature of the innovation you wish to protect.
Attention
- Protection must be handled before any publication whatsoever. Any premature revelation could jeopardize subsequent patent filing.
- Contact your establishment’s Promotion department to complete your Invention Declaration or your Software Declaration
- An Invention Declaration does NOT in any way constitute protection. It is simply a written description.
Regardless of the scientific field, the technical-economic phase in the innovation process during which results are developed – also called “maturation” – is an essential step helping to ensure that a given invention is adapted to the intended industry need before being transferred.
The transfer is finalized by granting a license, offering services to an industry company, or by founding a startup.
SATT AxLR services help with the everyday concerns related to the maturation of projects developed in laboratories. These services support project leaders on every aspect of the development process by providing expertise in project engineering; advice on marketing, regulatory, and legal aspects; and financial support, such as for hiring staff, acquiring basic equipment, services, reagents, and more.
Corresponding to real market conditions, our assistance enables supported projects to attract the interest of industry companies and investors.
Keys steps for getting started
Eligibility conditions
To present a project to SATT AxLR for maturation, the following are required:
- A tenured researcher from one of the research laboratory establishments that is either an SATT AxLR shareholder or that has signed a partnership agreement with SATT AxLR.
- Research results (laboratory proof-of-concept) likely to interest the socio-economic world.
- Results that are, or can be, protected.
