Intellectual Property Commercialization Strategy

Bringing products from the lab to marketplace successfully is easier said than done. NRC-CISTI can provide continued, reliable and high-value information on global R&D advances, business trends and market demands that it will help you invest in human and financial resources wisely in all areas from R&D program management to commercialization. Provides insights and action-oriented information to support Intellectual Property (IP) related decisions and/or technology transfer and technology commercialization activities: develop effective business strategies in commercializing R&D results with Canadian firms.

Some of the key benefits:

• Confirms the innovation potential of a technology and potential areas of application.
• Provides an overview of the IP landscape before initiating R&D projects.
• Gives access to relevant information to support the course of actions needed to bring an innovation project to commercial success.
• Gives access to key information to develop optimal technology transfer and commercialization strategies.

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Strategic Technical Information Analysis

Strategic Technical Information Analysis (STIA): Highly trained and experienced NRC-CISTI information analysts who, with the help of cutting-edge software applications:

• screen patent information and scientific, technical and business databases;
• identify "who" is doing "what";
• clean and organize data to avoid misinterpretation;
• validate and cross-reference the content; and
• analyze the data and information to highlight patterns and trends.

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Competitive Technical Intelligence Services

NRC-CISTI also offers Competitive Technical Intelligence (CTI) services. Technical Business Analysts (TBA) and Information Specialists (IS), with a high level of training and extensive experience, work together to provide customized analysis of large volumes of published and unpublished sources of information that relate to your areas of R&D. Theycan help in:

• identifying similar projects around the globe
• suggesting which applications of your technology might be most profitable in the marketplace
• listing potential collaborators and partners
• encouraging or discouraging technology acquisition, partnering and/or R&D investments

This service is offered through NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) and NRC Technology Clusters initiatives.