Corporate technologies

IPAuctions can help market intellectual property assets. The company has an online auction firm specializing in selling worldwide patents, trademarks, mailing lists, client and customer databases and financial instruments. The company markets primarily through its large proprietary database of buyers and investors - IPAuctions

Pharmalicensing is the leading online partnering exchange for biohpharm products and technologies. The site is free to access, with companies posting partnering opportunities paying a fee to post - Pharmalicensing

Pharma-Transfer (subscription required) is a comprehensive source of research and business development opportunities for the international pharmaceutical market. Opportunities come directly from biopharma companies, government agencies, research institutes and academia encompassing all areas of pipeline development, from early-stage discovery, through pre-clinical and clinical trials, to registered products that are all available for co-development or licensing - Pharma-Transfer

Adis Business Development & Licensing Insight (subscription required) profiles the most significant early-stage innovations and summarizes key features in a consistent, easy-to-review format - Adis Business Development & Licensing Insight

Innovation Relay Centre offers a pan-European database of technologies available for partnering, covering biopharma, energy, environmental, IT, telecoms, and industrial technologies - IRC database

KnowledgeExpress eMarket offers a free service to post and search for products and technologies available for partnering - KnowledgeExpress eMarket

Science|Business Network (subscription required) is an independent news service that brings together buyers and sellers of emerging technologies - through its online news coverage, its subscriber-posting service, and its networking events - Science|Business Network

SparkIP is a newly launched (2007) search engine for licensable intellectual property. The site also uses algorithms to cluster IP into realted groupings - SparkIP

BirchBob assists in buying, selling, and licensing innovations in the marketplace, as well as structuring collaborative R&D projects - BirchBob

Texchange is a free and efficient method for professionals to locate new technologies via database search - Texchange

Techquisition facilitates the technology transfer process in an efficient, cost-free, and effective manner - Techquisition

TechTransferOnline serves as an online marketplace for Intellectual Property (IP) to be listed, searched, and licensed or bought - TechTransferOnline

Planet Eurkea is the home of the USA National Innovation Marketplace and future home of additional National Marketplaces designed to bring together buyers and sellers of intellectual property - Planet Eureka

WikiPatents Marketplace is a Wiki based IP exchange WikiPatents Marketplace

InventBay brings together the world of inventions and support resources including capital, through a “free” global web based community InventBay

University technologies

Techex (subscription required) offers an online Technology Exchange for the biomedical sector where members can identify and introduce technology and intellectual property that is available for partnering - Techex

Uventures (subscription required) serves to connect those seeking cutting-edge physical science technologies with the leading universities and research institutions that are developing these innovations - Uventures

Pharma-Transfer (subscription required) is a comprehensive source of research and business development opportunities for the international pharmaceutical market. Opportunities come directly from biopharma companies, government agencies, research institutes and academia encompassing all areas of pipeline development, from early-stage discovery, through pre-clinical and clinical trials, to registered products that are all available for co-development or licensing - Pharma-Transfer

TechTransferOnline serves as an online marketplace for Intellectual Property (IP) to be listed, searched, and licensed or bought - TechTransferOnline

Flintbox is an online platform for marketing and licensing the outcomes of research. It allows organizations to describe and publish research projects online and associate products of this research for online license, purchase and download - Flintbox

iBridge Network provides the research community an additional channel through which to disseminate discoveries, research methods, and findings. The iBridge Network encourages more open and efficient access to research by interested parties - iBridge Network

Texchange is a free and efficient method for professionals to locate new technologies via database search - Texchange

Techquisition facilitates the technology transfer process in an efficient, cost-free, and effective manner - Techquisition

SparkIP is a newly launched (2007) search engine for licensable intellectual property. The site also uses algorithms to cluster IP into realted groupings - SparkIP

University-technology showcases the latest technology licensing opportunities available from all Scottish Universities in one convenient location - University-technology

Federal lab technologies

Asian and Pacific Centre For Transfer of Technology (APCTT) is a regional institution of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) servicing the Asia-Pacific region - APCTT

DoD TechMatch is a web-based portal designed to provide industry and academia a Deparment of Defense-sponsored solution to find Research & Development Opportunities, Licensable Patents, and information on nearly 120 DoD Labs located across the U.S. Registered users receive a daily e-mail taking them to their matching R&D opportunities from FedBizOpps, Grants.gov, SBIR/STTR solicitations; Calendar events; and Licensable Patents relevant to your business - DoD TechMatch

Federal Partners in Technology Transfer (FPTT) is an established network of federal public servants committed to working together to enhance their professional capacity and to ensure the expeditious transfer of the value created in federal laboratories. The strength of FPTT is measured by the relationships it builds, the knowledge it helps develop and share, and the technology transfer it enables - FPTT

FLC Technology Locator serves as a point of entry to federal laboratory expertise and technology. In meeting this need, the network also handles requests from other organizations working with the private sector - FLC technology locator

Open source partnering

BioForge - is intended to serve as a portal to a dynamic protected commons of enabling technologies in the life-sciences, available to anyone for improvement and to use in new innovations, both commercial and non-commercial - BioForge

BiOS - is an online response to inequities in food security, nutrition, health and natural resource management. BiOS's goal is to democratise problem solving to enable diverse solutions to problems through decentralised innovation - BiOS

Funding

Angelsden - connects business angels with entrepreneurs - Angelsden

Ask the community

LESI Life Science Network - provides an excellent means of posing licensing related questions to a panel of experienced LES members. The forum is moderated and provides the opportunity for other members to discuss the topics - LESI Life Science Network

Innocentive - is a web-based community matching top scientists to relevant R&D challenges facing leading companies from around the globe. The site provides an online forum enabling major companies to reward scientific innovation through financial incentives - Innocentive

Scienteur is a web based software system to facilitate the business of science and technology by connecting scientists with projects - Scienteur

Inventors-L - is a free, open, and unmoderated listserv geared toward inventors and their experiences - Inventors-L

Intellectual Property Law Server Forum - is an active forum discussing numerous IP matters - Intellectual Property Law Server Forum

Pharmalicensing Forum - provides a series of moderated forums on issues from industry gossip through to business development - Pharmalicensing Forum

Techno-L - is a free and open listserv (1,300 members) geared towards the technology transfer community - Techno-L