Valuation

The University of Montpellier encourages innovation within its laboratories and designs innovative solutions that benefit people and the environment thanks to Research developed by its researchers.

From technology to medicine, environmental engineering, and social sciences, UM promotes the scientific work of researchers by giving it economic and societal value directly linked to the challenges facing the industrial world.

Promoting research stimulates scientific innovation and enables us to have an impact on society and the socio-economic world. This encourages cooperation between laboratories and external partners and also generates new sources of revenue.

Ways to add value

Several avenues are open to researchers wishing to put their research work at the service of the socio-economic world:

• Technology transfer to an academic or industrial partner
• The provisions of the Innovation Act (participation in the creation of businesses and in the activities of existing businesses, scientific competitions, participation in governance bodies, etc.)

Technology transfer

Technology transfer facilitates the market entry of solutions derived from research work.

To this end, the University of Montpellier formalizes this transfer by establishing several types of commercialization agreements, such as:

• Co-ownership agreements
• License agreements
• Contracts for the transfer of rights

Good to know

Montpellier University ranked among the top patent applicants

Filing a patent is one of the steps in the commercialization process that can subsequently lead to an operating license or a contract for the transfer of rights.

It serves to protect, negotiate, and collect financial resources from innovations generated through the work carried out by our scientific community.

In 2022, the University of Montpellier was ranked among the top 50 applicants for patents filed with the INPI, placing it among the top 10 higher education institutions in France with the most patents filed.

The University of Montpellier has a subsidiary responsible for accelerating technology transfer.

The University of Montpellier has also set up a commercialization subsidiary, the technology transfer acceleration company SATT AxLR. The latter has an investment fund that supports research teams in bringing their projects to fruition and developing innovations in line with market needs. It also offers access to the intellectual property rights of the University of Montpellier on technologies it manages.