Applying knowledge and technologies to society includes transferring them to the industry in order to increase IIT’s contribution to the innovation process while generating income to support research and reward inventors.
Technology Transfer aims at bringing knowledge from research to the market. It includes protection of new technologies by means of patents and copyright, as well as the strategic licensing of IIT Intellectual Property. It also supports the creation of start-up companies, which may originate from a worthy combination of the cutting-edge knowledge and the entrepreneurial spirit of some IIT researchers.