In an increasingly knowledge-driven innovation based economy, Intellectual Property (IP) is a strategic business asset for enterprises. The effective management of these vital intangible assets has become imperative for enterprises to successfully leverage their know-how and proprietary technologies in an increasingly flat world.
Sathguru Management Consultants is the leading technology management consultancy in Asia. With over twenty years of core expertise in technology management, we have a long fruitful association with global research organizations – Cornell, NIH, USDA and others. We have over hundred-sixty satisfied private sector clientele across the world. Sathguru’s Technology Management Advisory Services covers the entire spectrum of Intellectual Property Asset Management:
- Technology Evaluation: We help our clients in prioritizing their IP portfolio to identify their strategic assets, and drive business. Our unique technology analysis helps in eliminating non-enabled and unpatentable technologies, and in identifying value points for successful commercialization.
- Technology Marketing: Our dedicated analysts facilitate in: identifying existing and new markets for a technology; in successful IP valuation; in preparing confidential summaries; in connecting companies with inventors; in marketing the technology, and creating successful linkages with potential buyers; and in preparing confidentiality agreements.
- License Negotiation: We negotiate IP terms, for our clientele, in research contracts and Material Transfer Agreements. Our core expertise includes negotiation of IP terms in unusual or complex collaborations; in assisting negotiation of financial terms and lastly, in drafting technology licensing agreements.
- IP Policy Development: For successful commercialization of the technology, we also assist in developing a suitable IP policy and in its implementation.
We value our clients, and we support them through the entire Technology Management value chain. In the process, we offer new possibilities to our clients that can far exceed the competence derived from a traditional business.
We provide advisory, research management, technology transfer and project monitoring for Cornell in six Asian countries, bringing together academic, industrial and policy interventions for life science sector. In the new TRIPS-milieu, a leading Indian biopharmaceutical company has chosen us to negotiate a complex contract for cross border licensing of their exclusive product.
Sathguru is a key sponsor of the Society for Technology Management (STEM), and actively engages in AUTM initiatives. We support technology transfer initiatives in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and the Mekong region among others.
We pride ourselves on being our clients’ commercial business partner and continuously endeavor to deliver on our clients’ expectations as we facilitate them to optimize and leverage their technologies.
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