Adaptation of a UK SME's Innovative and Successful University-Industry International Technology Transfer Platform to Facilitate its Adoption in Japan

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IN-PART Publishing Ltd is a small UK SME thatin 2014 launched a website which enabled universities to sendnews of their latest research developments, opportunities for collaboration, etc., directly and privately tosenior managers in research-active companies. This innovative curated "technology-transfer" mechanism hasproved remarkably successful with nearly all research universities in the UK, including Cambridge and Oxford,being subscribers, as also are leading universities in the USA (MIT, UPenn, Cornell, etc.) and other majorEnglish-speaking countries. This project aims to help the company expand the use of the system by universitiesin Asia where English is not the first language but where there is significant high-level research activity.Financial support will be used to help fund missions to Japan, whose university system is comparable in manyways to the UK's, to meet with key organisations, universities and companies to discuss how to adapt thecompany's business model, for example, by introducing dual language capability and establishing local native-speaking representatives. IN-PART aims to become the global technology-transfer enabler of first choice.