Valorisation of scientific results – patent commercialisation scoreboard: European universities and PROs

Moderator: Jeremy Philpott, communications manager, EPO

Guests: Ilja Rudyk, EPO senior economist and Thomas Bereuter, EPO innovation support manager 

Ilja Rudyk, EPO senior economist joins Thomas Bereuter, innovation support manager at the European Patent Academy, to discuss their latest scoreboard on patent commercialisation by universities and public research organisations (PROs). The scoreboard reveals the routes to market for inventions developed in universities and PROs – whether through patent licensing or sales, collaborations with industry (locally or cross-border) or by founding start-ups and spin-outs. The barriers to commercialisation differ widely across Europe. This scoreboard follows the one published in 2019 concerning SMEs.