inventtory.com

a major intangible asset class carried on institutional balance sheets is intellectual property (ip). spurred by $160b in public research in oecd-countries, many institutions seek to valorise this asset through licensing and other third party transactions meant to insure commercialisation. but successfully marketing and monetising this asset is challenging and there is increased pressure to increase return on investment (roi) on ip. developers of ip (universities, research institutes and also any supplier of innovation from the private sector) use inventtory.com to offer ip for sale. the aim of inventory.com is to help smes globally achieve strategic advantages thru innovative business models and solutions. the company takes a proven business model - internet-based trading - and applies it in an innovative way to the topic of technology transfer. a pool of 380,000 sleeping patents in europe alone sits on the books of public and private entities, while 22m european smes are virtually ex