UNIVERSITIES / RESEARCH INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES
Many offices lack resources, sufficient staffing, and the diverse experience required to address the broad scope of responsibilities assigned to them.
Whether you need help to:
- Develop action-oriented strategies to secure licenses, partnerships, and funding to take technologies from the lab to the marketplace
- Train or mentor faculty and staff about technology commercialization to enhance inhouse capabilities
- Construct and negotiate complex license agreements to achieve optimal outcomes for all parties
- Conduct an analysis benchmarking your office against peer institutions and identifying opportunities for streamlining processes and procedures to maximize operational efficiency
- Understand your patent portfolio's value and content to reduce caseload, minimize legal fees and maximize licensing opportunities
Burnside’s team of professionals have first-hand experience building and managing high-performance technology transfer offices and can help ensure your office operates at its peak potential.

UNIVERSITIES / RESEARCH INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES
Many offices lack resources, sufficient staffing, and the diverse experience required to address the broad scope of responsibilities assigned to them.
Whether you need help to:
- Develop action-oriented strategies to secure licenses, partnerships, and funding to take technologies from the lab to the marketplace
- Train or mentor faculty and staff about technology commercialization to enhance inhouse capabilities
- Construct and negotiate complex license agreements to achieve optimal outcomes for all parties
- Conduct an analysis benchmarking your office against peer institutions and identifying opportunities for streamlining processes and procedures to maximize operational efficiency
- Understand your patent portfolio's value and content to reduce caseload, minimize legal fees and maximize licensing opportunities
Burnside’s team of professionals have first-hand experience building and managing high-performance technology transfer offices and can help ensure your office operates at its peak potential.
A Few Previous/Current University/Research Institution Client Project Highlights

Serve as interim Executive Director for a large US university technology transfer office.
Served as an advisor to the Pontifical University of Chile, Santiago providing advice on the various aspects of their innovation ecosystem with an emphasis on their accelerator program.


Provide strategies for complex, international license agreement negotiations to numerous universities worldwide.
Remotely Mentor individuals at Technology Transfer Offices in Brazil, Chile, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and South Africa in collaboration with their National Patent Office.
