Examples of technology transfer include:
- technology licensing
- providing dedicated services to an existing company
- creation of a new company
- creating a marketable solution in direct response to the needs of a specific company
In addition to a certificate, first-time winners are awarded the sum of €1,000 for the team that developed the technology.
For the purposes of the awards, technology transfer is defined as a contractually documented joint- or privately funded academia-industry project or technology licence agreement, with the goal of bringing a concrete research result into industrial practice.
All applications are evaluated by an internal technology transfer committee.