What is the IP-for-equity model?
In the University of Tartu, as well as other academic institutions in Estonia, and most of the world, the IP-ownership follows the Bayh- Dole model. This allows the university to retain the ownership of inventions made with public funds vs assigning it centrally to the government or to the individual researcher.
How IP-4-equity works:
To make transferring the technology from the university to the real world simple and transparent, the University of Tartu invests the assets i.e. the intellectual property to the companies with proven commercial capabilities [i.e. a cash investment or a business grant from government funds].
Uni owns the IP
Uni makes non-monetary capital payment to UniTartu Ventures [UTV]
UTV invests the IP i.e. makes the non-monetary capital payment to the spin-off. And gets equity,
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