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Licensing your research to an external organisation can help translate it into societally beneficial products and services

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What is licensing?

What it means to license your research to an external company and the benefits it can bring to you and your research.

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The licensing process

The usual steps involved in taking your invention lab to license deal.

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Rewards to Inventors

Imperial’s scheme to allow inventors at Imperial to share in the financial rewards of commercialising their research.

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IP & Rewards

Intellectual Property Policy (College login)

Imperial College IP policy: guidelines for research and innovation protection

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Reward to Inventors Scheme PDF (College login)

Full policy version of the 'Reward to Inventors scheme'

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Case studies

Natural Killer: Biotech licensing collaboration

How Imperial Enterprise helped an Imperial academic to partner with an innovative biotechnology company.

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