Technology Commercialisation
The Necsa Office of Technology Commercialisation strives to provide the following services to the Necsa Group: Cultivation of an Innovation Ecosystem, Recording and Evaluation of Inventions, Management and Prosecution of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Commercialisation of IP.
Cultivation of an Innovation Ecosystem
- Create IP awareness via workshops and dialogue
- Facilitate the alignment of IP strategies with business objectives
- Identify IP and technology white spaces in line with Necsa’s mandate and core competencies
- Continuously improve innovation processes and capabilities
- Facilitate the identification and capture of patentable inventions
- Register and review Innovation Disclosures (IVDs)
- Assist with prior art, literature and IP landscaping searches
- Provide technical and legal inputs to determine the best protection strategy
- Facilitate the development of invention specification for patent applications
- Collaborate with patent attorneys to file IP applications
- Manage IP prosecution and litigation processes
- Present the IP pipeline as a searchable database via Nucleus
- IP portfolio management and review
- Perform Freedom to Operate (FTO) and infringement investigations
- IP technological and economic valuation to support commercialisation
- Assist with funding applications
- Provide guidance on IP matters in negotiations and agreements
- Manage licensing agreements
- Record and manage inventor benefit sharing process
- Establish an IP governance and exploitation arrangement with Necsa subsidiaries
- Technology transfer: acquisition of IP and disposal of non-core IP
- Marketing of IP, technology and expertise.
