A range of resources, some of which are directly aligned to investors.

Others (mainly technology commercialisation groups) are a powerful way of finding knowledge and information to support technology and market due diligence

These groups have a wide variety of contributors, some directly working in the commercialising intellectual property or technology, but many in more indirect roles

These groups vary in their scope and coverage but many include SMEs, SME support professionals, patent attorneys, technology brokers, consultants in the industry and technology investors.

For IT support professionals in either small or large organisations

For professional services and business people

Users will only be able to join these groups if they are members of the relevant organisations

These groups are most suited to anyone supporting SMEs in the science or technology sector, whether they are

• Business Development Managers for Science Parks/Incubators

• UK regional development agency SME support staff

• European IRC/EEN network

For IN-licensing professionals, these networks represent a very simple and powerful way of sourcing specific IP or technology as a single sentence request to any of these networks gets exposure across large numbers of technology providers (approx 150 research institutions currently)

For OUT-licensing professionals, these networks represetnt a valuable source of knowledge of technology markets, contacts, etc

For SMEs from any technology sector, from any country, who either seek new technology, or technical expertise or knowledge from Universities and other research organisations

For professions of all types in or around the construction industry

For anyone planning on starting their own business, or in early stages of trading

This will be of interest to anyone seeking research partnerships between industry and academia, or finding suitable partners or technology expertese within academia

These are groups that are either awaiting volunteers to administer them or have volunteers in place but have not yet recruited enough membership to run

Running a Knowledge Vine network take very little time and is a simple way of raising your profile in a given business community.  There is plenty of support on hand to help you understand what this entails.  Please contact mark.thompson@umip.com or +44 161 306 3047 if you are interested.

For the sustainable building community

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