Research Roadmap

Recently, valorization became a core activity for knowledge institutions and a performance indicator. Valorization is the process of creating value from scientific knowledge, by making it suitable and/ or available for economical and/ or social exploitation and to translate it into innovative products, services, processes and new businessto benefit society & public health. Therefore it is important to define the potential impact on society and public health when defining the research plan.

Some of the questions that you need to ask yourself are:

• How will you apply your research results in society?
• What is the potential of your research in terms of social and/or economic impact?

IXA can help you identify the best valorisation strategy to further advance your particular idea, invention, innovation, product, service, technology or(educational)material.

IXA can support and facilitate you in all these ways of valorisation. As the joint knowledge transfer office of Amsterdam UMC, VU, UvA and HvA, IXA support researchers in a broad sense: from entering into major collaborations with industry to guiding the marketing of new inventions and research results, finding funding sources , protection of intellectual property and drawing up (collaboration) contracts to guiding you in starting your own business.

If you are excited about an idea or a potential innovation, one of the very first steps is to talk to one of IXA’s business developers, even if your idea is still in the concept stage and plans are very much ‘under construction’. The sooner you involve them, the better – in particular when protection of intellectual property is at stake. IXA's business developers can inform you about the dos and don’ts of making your research data and results public. IXA has specialized business developers for each research field.

Since IXA is an integral part of the Amsterdamuniversities’ infrastructure, their services, facilities and expertise are free of charge. For more information see their website.