KTO gives shape and meaning to UM’s third task: Its mission is to promote, foster and facilitate the transfer of academic knowledge from Maastricht University to society with the goal of maximizing both societal as well as economic value.
KTO supports researchers in the complex process of valorisation. KTO is an institute of Maastricht University that supports and coordinates fundraising, knowledge cooperation and knowledge transfer by university faculties and manages the knowledge commercialization processes.
Specialists working at KTO provide tailor-made services to researchers active in fundraising and the valorisation of their knowledge.
How valorisation benefits your research:
Valorisation is the process of creating value from knowledge by making knowledge suitable and available for societal and/or economic application and by transforming it into products, services, processes and new business.
KTO will achieve its mission through the activities of its four clusters:
Technology Transfer, Knowledge Cooperation, Knowledge Dissemination and Entrepreneurship.
Knowledge Transfer * |
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Entrepreneurship |
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* As of 2016, UM/MUMC+ decided to accommodate all valorisation and related business development activities in the field of Health and (Life) Sciences at BLMHC. As such, BLMHC is responsible for the entire process, from developing business cases based on your inventions through, if applicable, financing and guiding new businesses. Valorisation activities resulting from the so-called alfa-gamma sciences are performed via the Knowledge Transfer Office (KTO), which is highly connected with BLMHC.