“In addition to a growing portfolio of university IP investments, Tekcapital helps research institutions and businesses develop disruptive technologies and expand their portfolios of intellectual capital through leveraging their suite of powerful and convenient technology transfer services.”

“Innovation is driving companies to look outside their interrnal R&D teams,” said Gross, who is the founder and CEO of Tekcapital, a University IP company… Capturing innovation from the crowd is now streamlined enough to become a part of any company’s survival kit.

An entrepreneur that wants to benefit from UIP [university intellectual property] would traditionally have to network with individual universities, making relationships with their technology transfer offices. But today entrepreneurs and international organizations facilitate a near frictionless system of access to that wealth of information.

Tekcapital released an app earlier this year that allows users to search for IP from their smartphones. This is a good way to get a feel for what is out there, identify technologies you may want, and get your creative wheels spinning.

The Invention Evaluator tool has helped us to make decisions with a greater degree of certainty of the path that the technology should follow.