# Use university technology transfer

Browser-rendered handoff of repository-authored Markdown. Source identity: `services/use-university-technology-transfer.md`. Links and original summaries are shown; external source content is not redistributed.

    ---
    type: "Service Family"
    title: "Use university technology transfer"
    description: "Follow the institution's disclosure and ownership policy, engage its technology-transfer function and agree protection, licensing or spin-out decisions."
    status: "population-complete"
    assertion_status: "normalized"
    jurisdiction: "nation-specific"
    observed_at: "2026-08-08"
    sources:
      - id: "ideas-creativity-and-research-source-register"
        title: "Ideas, creativity and research"
        resource: "../source/domain-registers/ideas-creativity-and-research.v1.yaml"
        author: "organisation:okf-uk-living"
        observed_at: "2026-08-08"
    ---

    # Use university technology transfer

    ## Place in the process

    This topic sits within **Fund, publish and commercialise research** in the **Ideas, creativity and research** life-course
    domain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first
    safe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.

    ## What this family covers

    Follow the institution's disclosure and ownership policy, engage its technology-transfer function and agree protection, licensing or spin-out decisions.

    The ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow
    the responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the
    confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.

    ## If the ordinary route does not fit

    If a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals
    an urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's
    exception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.

    Where a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.

    ## Official routes

    - [England: University and business collaboration agreements](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/university-and-business-collaboration-agreements-lambert-toolkit)
    - [Scotland: University and business collaboration agreements](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/university-and-business-collaboration-agreements-lambert-toolkit)
    - [Wales: University and business collaboration agreements](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/university-and-business-collaboration-agreements-lambert-toolkit)
    - [Northern Ireland: University and business collaboration agreements](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/university-and-business-collaboration-agreements-lambert-toolkit)

    These are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a
    handoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,
    deadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.

    ## What may follow

    The result can feed the next family in **Fund, publish and commercialise research**, another enclosing
    process, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the
    ordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.

    ## Review status

    This record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review
    before any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is
    described as release-grade.