Technology Profile Pages

Technology profiles are your chance to market technologies with existing IP to potential licensing or collaboration partners. Use available technology profiles to describe the need, progress, funding, IP, and collaboration goals for your technology to find the best partnership match.
Create a detailed technology profile page by selecting an available technology and editing each field via the pencil icon in the corner.

Fields available to describe your technology profile include general fields such as:

• Title – provide a descriptive name for your technology.
• Date Published – the date you published your profile in YYYY-MM-DD format.
• One-line summary – give viewers a short summary or ‘gist’ of the technology. Keep this section brief as a more detailed description can be given in the invention background and technology description sections.
• Reference – use this space to include an internal reference number for the technology if your institution has one.
• Logo URL – insert the URL of your institution’s logo into this field. To find your logo URL, you can drag the image of your logo from social media like LinkedIn or Facebook into your browser’s search bar, and a URL linking your image will be created. Alternatively, click on the logo icon on the technology profile page and select an image from your hard drive. If your institution has selected use logo for all profiles in your institution’s profile, your institution’s logo will automatically fill in this section.
• Invention Background – use this field to outline the problem statement and solution that your technology provides. Information generally included in this section is information about the field of the invention, the need that this technology solves, and how the technology is an improvement from existing technologies.
• Technology Description – use this field to provide more detailed and technical information about how the technology works. This section should outline what specifically about the technology is novel and innovative in its field.
• Advantages/Benefits – this section should describe the advantages of using this technology instead of competing or similar technologies. This may include advantages such as lower cost, better performance, longer lasting, etc.
• Applications – use this section to outline the known uses of the technology as well as potential applications after further development.
• Collaboration Goals – this section should outline what your institution is looking for in a partner for this technology, whether it be an exclusive license, help with generating data or research, or project funding. This section will help potential partners decide if the technology and vision of the team fit well within their organization’s pipeline or business model.
• Development Stage – outline where the technology’s team has gotten so far in prototyping and commercializing the technology. This may differ between fields, whether it be in vivo work or clinical trials for life science technologies , or prototype testing and field tests for device inventions.
• Application Markets Estimates – describe the potential market size for your product based on various applications or market segments to demonstrate the potential benefit for licensees.
• Milestones Achieved – showcase the progress of your technology by demonstrating important milestones. Milestones for technology profiles may include things like completing animal or toxicity studies, creating a successful prototype, entering an accelerator program, acquiring federal funding, publishing a paper, or applying for a patent.
• Funding Received – demonstrate the support for the technology by listing the funding received for the project, which may include federal or institutional grants, accelerator funding, or private funding.
• Video Links – Insert videos describing the technology, laboratory, research center, or anything relevant to the project by inserting the YouTube, Vimeo, SlideShare, or custom video links. Thumbnails of the videos will appear on the technology profile page and make the profile appear more dynamic.
• Images & Documents – Insert images and documents relevant to the technology by uploading from your hard drive or URL. Relevant images and documents may include journal publications, images of a prototype, or promotional material.
• Development Tasks – Use this section to outline goals and timelines for further development of the technology. This will indicate an active research group and momentum propelling the technology forward.
• Project Summary – This section summarizes the field and stage of development of the invention. Labels used in this section are used to help filter technologies in searches, so make sure to fill it out so that the technology appears in specific searches.
• Researchers/Inventors – Include researchers, their roles, and LinkedIn profiles to help demonstrate the expertise of the team and help viewers further their understanding of the goals and background of the technology.
• News/Publications – attach relevant news and publications to show the latest developments and buzz about the technology.
• Twitter – attach a relevant twitter (such as that of the laboratory or institution) via handle so that your twitter feed appears on the page, keeping the profile more current.
• Keywords – tag the technology with relevant keywords so that it appears in more searches. More specific keywords are generally more helpful than general ones, and will help differentiate the technology. For example, “oncology” is a better keyword than “therapeutics” because it is more specific.
• Patent Status – provide a summary of IP acquired or being pursued for the technology to demonstrate the stage of IP protection, whether it be provisional, nonprovisional, filed, or issued patents.
• Patent Publications/Other IP Field – Attach the specific patents relevant to the technology by adding patents manually or looking up patents for automatic addition.
• Legal & Regulatory – This section is used to describe in-house expertise aiding the prosecution and litigation of IP protection to support licensees.
• Knowhow transfer – use this section to describe whether there are resources or knowledge at your institution to facilitate the adoption of the technology to a licensee. This may be researchers on the project that are willing to explain the technology to a potential licensee or continue to contribute time or resources to the project.
• Preferred Features – outline information on what your institution expects to give and receive as a result of licensing this technology to a potential partner.
• Deep-dive packages – For more information on the Deep-dive package section see the Secure Data Management section of the manual.
  

Here’s our example of a technology profile