Science and research are rich sources of creative ideas and inventions that can yield new products or improved processes when exercised in collaboration with companies. While the business world is reliant upon this relationship, there is often a gap between research results on the one hand, and business applications on the other. Scientists and business professionals frequently have diverging objectives, backgrounds and languages, and often live in separate “worlds”.

An intermediary is needed for close collaboration between the dissimilar cultures found in research and business. That is why we have developed the tecnet Transfer Bridge. It features interconnected innovation modules to incorporate the demands from the business world and future customers into the research process at an early stage. Inventions from research are then presented to potentially interested parties from the business world to facilitate rapid morphosis from invention to innovation.