Rights
IP position
Ownership, protection, freedom to operate, and time remaining on the patent clock.
For universities
Turn research assets into funded companies.
AVIVA helps institutions determine which discoveries have a viable company path, then provides the roadmap and operating support to move the right ones forward.
The institutional challenge
Understaffed teams are asked to make company-making decisions every day.
Technology Transfer Offices, innovation programs, and entrepreneurship programs are often asked to assess a disclosure before they have the time, people, or operating evidence to determine whether it can become a viable product and company. Sending every promising idea to legal can slow the process, stretch scarce resources, and still leave the market and company question unanswered.
Fewer than one in three university patents are ever licensed, and institutions capture only about 16 percent of the economic value their patented research generates.
The AVIVA partnership
Your TTO-as-a-service partner for company formation.
AVIVA partners with your Technology Transfer Office, innovation program, or entrepreneurship program to assess research assets, evaluate their readiness to move forward, and give your team a practical roadmap to a de-risked company. The result is a confident first decision before legal, patent, and institutional resources are committed.
Institutional role
Protect and transfer
- Invention disclosure
- Patent strategy
- Licensing structure
- Institutional approvals
AVIVA role
Assess and build
- Asset viability assessment
- Company formation roadmap
- Operating leadership
- Capital preparation
University assessment
Make the right decision before scarce resources are committed.
AVIVA Score™ gives Technology Transfer Office, Innovation Program, and Entrepreneurship Program leaders a consistent way to identify which disclosures merit deeper company-building work and which should take a different path.
Evidence
Translational case
Proof, reproducibility, development assumptions, and the next evidence milestone.
Execution
Development path
Regulatory route, manufacturing feasibility, timing, and material operating dependencies.
Company
Formation case
Leadership needs, capital requirement, business model, and a credible reason to form now.
Engagement path
From disclosure review to a de-risked company plan.
Start with the decision in front of you. AVIVA can provide the assessment and roadmap, or stay with the institution and company through formation and execution.
Assess
Evaluate the asset and establish whether it has a viable company path.
Decide
Prioritize the next action: advance, pause, license, or prepare for formation.
Plan
Set a practical roadmap for the entity, leadership, capital, and development work ahead.
Build
Bring in the operating support required to establish and advance the company.
Institutional value
Prioritize the ideas worth advancing before legal has to sort through every one.
AVIVA gives your team a documented viability assessment and an actionable company formation plan before resources move into patent, legal, and institutional review. AVIVA can provide ongoing score access, expert review, and practical action plans across your portfolio, so a lean team can make faster, better-supported decisions. Contact AVIVA to discuss engagement options and pricing for universities.