Bar-Ilan Research & Development Co. Ltd. serves as the extended arm of Bar-Ilan University for technology transfer. Functioning as a commercial entity, the Company can most efficiently interface between scientific and technological development at the University and the world of business and industry. Bar-Ilan Research & Development Co. Ltd. realizes its technology transfer objectives by:
- identifying and assessing research projects with commercial potential;
- encouraging researchers to promote and expand research towards applied industrial projects;
- patenting inventions and protecting various aspects of the intellectual property of the University and its scientists;
- attracting funding for projects in their various stages of development in exchange for the rights to commercially exploit their results by licensing out inventions and technologies to industry and/or initiating and engaging in the establishment of start-up companies.
