Is this invention worth licensing, and to whom?
A technology transfer office takes in a university's invention disclosures, protects the ones worth protecting and licenses them to companies; a commercialization assessment answers the question that sits in front of each of those steps -- what the invention is worth and who would buy it -- built as a decision, with the recommendation on page one and the market model as an editable spreadsheet.
What you receive
I build the assessment as a decision: the recommendation and the reasoning on page one, six sections each carrying one part of the argument, a full source ledger with every number traced to a primary source, and the market model as an editable spreadsheet, so you can change an assumption and watch the answer move.
Proof
I assessed one university invention disclosure under a CDA and delivered the assessment and its model two days after the CDA was signed; the assessment was benchmarked head to head against a paid consultant's report and a commercial report vendor's, on the same input.
How an engagement runs
The scope is fixed in writing first ->
Questions
What does a technology transfer office do?
It manages a university's inventions: it takes disclosures from faculty, decides which to patent, markets them and licenses them to companies, then administers the licence. The decision each disclosure forces -- patent it, license it, or let it go -- comes before any of that, and an outside assessment is built to answer it: the recommendation, the evidence behind it and the model, for one disclosure, so the office can decide what to carry and to whom.
What does a commercialization assessment contain?
The recommendation and the reasoning on page one; six sections each carrying one part of the argument; a source ledger with every number traced to a primary source; and the market model as the spreadsheet itself, so your office can change the assumptions and watch the answer move.
How long does it take, and what does it cost?
I delivered the assessment and model for one invention disclosure with its companion programme application two days after the CDA was signed. You send the disclosure and the decision it feeds; I return a written scope naming the sources to be read, what you will receive and the delivery date, with the fee fixed against that scope. Nothing starts until you have agreed it in writing. I do not publish rates and I do not bill by the hour.
Does the inventor's disclosure stay confidential?
Yes. The work runs under your office's CDA, signed before any document is supplied, and nothing about the technology appears outside the deliverable; I identify the one assessment described on this page only as a university invention, because its subject is covered by a CDA.
Who would buy this technology, and how would you know?
The assessment names the buyer class and the market behind it, and the model carries the numbers. I have been the licensee: in 2017 I negotiated an exclusive licence to a Caltech imaging technology, ran the freedom-to-operate and patent-landscape work, built the instrument and sold the first one to a Fortune 100 pharma in 2022; the company still sells on that platform in 2026. Since 2015 I have also sat on angel-group due-diligence teams, about 25 deals, writing competitive landscapes and scientific reviews and presenting the recommendation to the group.
A 30-minute call, no deck. Tell me the question.