For Universities
SemVentures‘ mission is to team-up from the start to support the needed business development structure:
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For researchers with novel ideas
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For university management
Universities have a more important role to play in the exploitation of their research findings now and in the near future. One of the multiple activities in knowledge-market links is the start-up of high-tech enterprises that spin-off from the university, also referred as Spin-offs.
A major challenge is linking the technology-push of new ideas in these universities to an actual market demand and obtaining sufficient resources to do so, such as entrepreneurial management, patents, risk capital and the right (market) strategies.
Research of best-practices shows that the manner these resources are implemented from the start is crucial for later success in growth of employment, added value and investments of high-tech enterprises. The critical success factor is a quality business development team that can think along with entrepreneurial researchers from the start and provide this complete set of resources.