Technology maturation
SATT Paris-Saclay is your preferred partner for adding essential value to your research results and creating economic value.
It puts its expertise and human, technical and financial resources at your service to ensure the protection, maturation and commercialisation of your innovations.
Calls for applications
As part of its technology transfer mission, SATT Paris–Saclay regularly issues calls for applications to research laboratories at Paris-Saclay University and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
The Tech Transfer Programme is a funding and support scheme offered by SATT Paris-Saclay.
Our services
SATT Paris-Saclay invites you to apply regularly to its calls for applications to submit your innovative project with high commercialisation potential.
The application file should include a description of the technology and its maturity, the potential market, the planned commercialisation strategy, intellectual property, the project team and the objectives of the maturation project.
At your service
► Four Maturation Project Managers are available to analyse your project and provide advice before you apply.
Contact them at: maturation@satt-paris-saclay.fr
Before applying:
No prior publication of the scientific results may have been made.
The project must have scientific and technological obstacles to overcome during the maturation phase.
Inform your institution’s commercialisation unit and have your application form signed.
SATT Paris-Saclay relies on its innovation experts, Investment Committee and Board of Directors to select projects that will benefit from a maturation programme.
Candidate projects must be based on tangible preliminary results, demonstrating clear technological differentiation and/or disruptive performance potential prior to submission.
- Pre-selection: pitch to the Project Launch Committee, composed of SATT Paris-Saclay innovation experts, who will assess the innovative nature and added value of your project on the market, the robustness of its IP and the motivation of the team.
- Co-construction: work with SATT’s innovation experts to define your project’s value proposition and market positioning.
- Investment Committee: composed of industry and venture capital professionals and entrepreneurs recognised for their expertise and market knowledge, the Investment Committee issues an opinion on each project to inform the investment decisions taken by the Board of Directors.
- Board of Directors: on the recommendations of the Investment Committee, the Board of Directors is responsible for approving investment decisions for projects that are ready for development.
Each winning project is monitored by a Maturation Project Manager from SATT Paris-Saclay, assisted by a Patent Engineer, an IP Lawyer and a Start-up Support Project Manager in the event of a business creation. This is carried out in accordance with the programme that has been defined and approved.
The stages of maturation:
- Kick-off
- Monthly review
- Milestone review
- IP and valuation review
- Prepare to exploit the results of maturation
Four stages covering an average period of six to twelve months maximum.
- Analyse the company’s business model, specifying the geographical areas of operation and fields of application.
- Analyse the company’s business plan for exploiting the technology and provide an initial revenue estimate to SATT Paris-Saclay.
- Draw up a term sheet by SATT Paris-Saclay to facilitate the financing of the start-up by investors or to secure the transfer of technology to an industrial company (SME or large account). This term sheet can be drawn up during the co-construction phase of the project, depending on the company’s needs.
- Finalise negotiations relating to the licence for the industrial partner to exploit the technology. Implement a dedicated communication campaign when the transfer agreement is signed. Support start-ups through communication and commercial prospecting activities. Set up an annual review of the transfer agreement with the industrial partner exploiting the technology.
Business model
The economic model of SATT Paris-Saclay is based on a virtuous mechanism for sharing the revenue generated by the exploitation of laboratory research results.
This sharing with partner institutions and thus with the researcher who developed the technology helps to support the development of public research in Paris-Saclay. As a savvy investor, supported by its decision-making bodies, SATT selects its projects with a view to achieving profitability in around seven years, at the end of the project’s maturation phase.
SATT Paris-Saclay ensures its return on investment through the collection of royalties and/or milestones, and, on a case-by-case basis, through the acquisition of equity when start-ups are created.
Contact
Any questions ?
maturation@satt-paris-saclay.fr