ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 describes the services that support IP portfolio management in prominent TTOs and, based on the University of Oxford experience, illustrates how POC develops as a key mechanism for successful research commercialisationwithin prominent entrepreneurial universities. It also shows how key stages (the dots) of the technology transfer process connect to promote innovation and explains how the fundamental incompatibility between the instrumental role of POC in advancing scientific ideas to the market and the persistent reluctance of private investors to fund prototypes calls on university mission to fill this gap by generating income, from patenting and licensing to self-finance university research, education and to promote economic growth though innovation.
