Templates, Toolkits & Guidance

PraxisAuril has collected templates and toolkits that Knowledge Exchange and Commercialisation practitioners may find helpful in their work. If you are seeking a specific template from our member community please contact us on info@praxisauril.org.uk. If you have a template you would like us to consider for inclusion, please contact website@praxisauril.org.uk.
This guide from the Medical Technologies Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) is for knowledge exchange and commercialisation practitioners, and will be useful for anyone with an interest in innovation or research translation based in a higher education or research institution. ‘Bridging the...
This free good practice guide from Grow MedTech introduces a low-cost funding award scheme for due diligence and de-risking at the earliest stages of innovation. Grow MedTech’s first good practice guide explains how by investing small amounts of money into proof of market awards, opportunities can...
PraxisAuril is delighted to make available to members this chapter on Biotechnology licensing authored by Lita Nelsen, Retired Director of the Technology Licensing Office (TLO) at MIT, Cambridge USA and PraxisAuril Patron.    The chapter is based on Lita's 25 years experience at the MIT TLO and...
Produced by AURIL & PraxisUnico. Authoried by Christine Reid, Emyr Lewis & David Bembo. Funded by HEFCE.  This guide was prepared in order to inform universities which are active in R&D and innovation about State Aid legislation in order that any associated risks can be assessed and...
Author: Intellectual Property Office (IPO)
Lambert 2 (2016)  https://www.gov.uk/guidance/university-and-business-collaboration-agreem... This toolkit is for universities and companies that wish to undertake collaborative research projects with each other. The toolkit consists of:  a decision guide 7 model research collaboration (one to...
Author: HEFCE
HEFCE's resources on funding, measuring knowledge exchange, knowledge exchange strategy and development can be found here: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/kess/
Author: Easy Access IP
Easy Access IP is an international initiative supported by universities and research institutions with the aim of increasing knowledge exchange between the research base and industry, particularly small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs). The initiative has the aim of lowering barriers to entry by...
Author: Government
The study of patents has been approached with increased enthusiasm in recent times. At present there are clear differences in perspective between professional patent experts, researchers undertaking patent analysis and the audience for this research, which includes governments, the press,...
Author: Brunswick Group
The Brunswick Group has developed a number of template agreements for use between two universities or similar not-for-profit organisations. The aim is to remove the need to spend time on drafting and negotiation in the majority of cases.  Development of the template agreements is led by ARMA....