ZIERU places a strong emphasis on the commercialization of research findings through the development of products, services, and technologies that can be brought to the market.

How It Fosters Collaboration:

  • Innovation Hubs: Creates innovation hubs where academic researchers and industry professionals can collaborate to develop new technologies and bring them to market.
  • Technology Transfer Offices: ZIERU is establishing a technology transfer office that helps translate research findings into commercial products and services. This office facilitates collaboration with industry partners and venture capitalists to commercialize innovative ideas.
  • Intellectual Property (IP) Support: Provides support to researchers in protecting and licensing intellectual property (IP), enabling collaborative research projects to transition into commercially viable products.

APPROACH:

A collaboration between ZIERU’s health sciences researchers and medical device manufacturers leads to the development of wearable health technologies, which shall be patented and commercialized.