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Tell us what you need
Describe what you're after in your own terms — a technology, a capability, a specific problem to solve.
Partnership model / TTI Partner
Find the university IP you’ve been looking for.
For corporates seeking to license NUS technology, access investment-ready startups, or find a specific innovation. We do the searching across the university — you get the brief.
How it works
Three steps to a perfect match
You don't browse a catalogue. You tell us what you're after, we search the university's IP — patents, technologies, startups — and we come back with what's relevant to you.
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We search the university
The TTI team goes deep across NUS — patents, technologies, research groups, investment-ready startups — to find what matches. We can tell you the probability of a match before you commit.
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You get the brief
What's relevant to you, and nothing else — ready for a licensing or partnership conversation.
What happens here
Beyond licensing corporate-venture-style access to NUS startups ready for investment or strategic partnership.
DF Retail Group
Piaget
L'Occitane
Huawei
Carl Hansen and Son
Case study / Galatech
What a real engagement looks like: from blind-box discovery through to licensing and ongoing collaboration
- Challenge
- What the corporate was looking for
- What NUSX did
- The search across the university
- Collaboration
- The licensing / partnership formed
- Outcome
- The result
FAQ
Common questions
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[1] How does the IP search actually work?
You brief the TTI team on what you're after; they search across NUS patents, technologies, research groups and startups, and come back with what's relevant.
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[2] What does it cost, and is it under NDA?
The initial conversation and search are free, and can run under NDA — commercial terms only enter once there's a match worth pursuing.
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[3] What's a TRL score and why does it matter?
Technology Readiness Level — a 1–9 scale for how mature a technology is. It tells you how far a match is from deployment before you commit.
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[4] What if there's no match?
You'll know early — the team can state the probability of a match before you commit, and a specific problem can go to researchers as a tech challenge instead.
Bring us a problem