Researcher
Support the impact of your projects and showcase them.
Protect my results
Toulouse Tech Transfer is commissioned by your institution to protect your usable research results.
Our project manager communicates with you and helps you complete a Preliminary Invention Form (PIF). This simplified document provides the foundation to begin our analysis in terms of protection and valorisation strategy.
Once your PIF has been sent to TTT, don't forget to send an "invention declaration" letter to your employer.
Protect my result
- Safeguard your research result without delay
- Ensure compatibility between protection and your research work
- Recommend and set up IP strategy
- File patents, formalise and date software and know-how
Testimonial
"This support enabled us to protect our results by filing several patents, before we could then publish in Nature in 2015.
TTT also supported us through maturation programmes which helped us transform our molecular biology discovery into technology aimed at using natural peptides to modulate plate growth.
After much discussion and deliberation, we then chose to found a business to promote the results obtained. After identifying a project leader, we founded the company Micropep Technologies in 2016. We had observed a wide gap between basic research, particularly in molecular biology, and major agronomy businesses. In founding Micropep Technologies, we are trying to fill this gap.
After a first round of fundraising of €4M in 2018, the company now has around twenty employees and its aim is to identify and market natural peptides to replace chemical ingredients and pesticides in agronomy.”
Jean-Philippe Combier
CNRS Director of Research
LRSV, 2020 Business Creation Award winner.
Tip
Research result promotion (patent, business creation, etc.) is now included in academic evaluations (HCERES criteria).
For example, a patent filed internationally is considered as a Rank A scientific publication.