University of Ljubljana (Knowledge transfer office)

Our main objective is to encourage and support various forms of knowledge transfer to the business sector and thus society. As part of the University of Ljubljana, the Knowledge Transfer Office is active in the following areas:

Cooperation with industry:
- Intellectual property protection
- Intellectual property commercialisation
- Fostering entrepreneurship and establishing spin-out companies
- Our employee and student services

- We help identify potential innovations;
- we advise on patentability;
- we conduct the acquisition of service inventions;
- we advise on an intellectual property protection strategy;
- we manage patent applications and the acquisition of other industrial property rights;
- we assist in promotion and identification of industrial partners;
- we manage negotiations of the conclusion of licence or assignment contracts;
- we help establish spin-out companies in collaboration with the Ljubljana University Incubator (LUI);
- we provide legal assistance in drafting R&D contracts;
- we carry out training on the legal protection and marketing of intellectual property;
- we raise employee awareness regarding the importance of intellectual property at the University of Ljubljana;
- we advise on copyright matters.

Our services for the industry

- We locate suitable expertise or technology;
- we promote development challenges of companies among researchers;
- we locate suitable research infrastructure.