Patents remain an important way for research-intensive universities to exploit their work, but the commercialisation scene is changing. Direct licensing to large companies appears to be in decline, with universities increasingly expected to develop technologies to higher levels of maturity and lower the risk, and new actors stepping in to support university ecosystems.
CSEM launches the fifth edition of its "CSEM Digital Journey" competition, which has been explicitly developed for Swiss SMEs. In doing so, the innovation center will support a company trying to realize its digital project.