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Licensing your research to an external organisation can help translate it into societally beneficial products and services

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What is licensing?

What it means to license your research to an external company and the benefits it can bring to you and your research.

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The usual steps involved in taking your invention lab to license deal.

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How Imperial Enterprise helped an Imperial academic to partner with an innovative biotechnology company.

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