Technology Transfer Office

We help EPFL technologies make a difference.
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We work with EPFL researchers to turn their technologies into business opportunities that can benefit society - in particular by capturing and licensing EPFL’s intellectual property assets, managing collaborations with industry, and by accelerating the commercialization of early stage technologies.

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Collaborate with our researchers

Understand the different ways to set-up collaborations between EPFL and industry.

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Commercialize your research

Get support to accelerate the development of your technology through the enable program.

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Recherche et tech transfer, STI

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“Data protection policies that seem clear are often ambiguous"

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A new EU regulation that went into effect in May has prompted consumers to pay more attention to how websites use the personal data they collect. With Polisis, an AI-based program developed at EPFL, consumers can get quick, easy-to-read summaries of websites’ data protection policies. And the program is becoming highly popular – EPFL’s Technology Transfer Office has received numerous license requests. Hamza Harkous, one of the software developers, is pleasantly surprised at its success and has just entered into a license agreement with US-based search engine DuckDuckGo. We spoke with Harkous about his one-of-a-kind program.

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EPFL partners with Stanford to advance life science research

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Catalyze4Life, an Innovation Initiative of EPFL has partnered with the similar SPARK program at Stanford University to further advance its mission of fostering innovative research and technologies in the life sciences.

Science is keeping pace with marathoners

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Thanks to sensors attached to their shoes, long-distance runners can harness the power of algorithms to analyze their stride. The algorithms, developed by EPFL spin-off Gait Up and tested in the Laboratory of Movement Analysis and Measurement (LMAM), are unmatched in terms of precision and the range of parameters measured, such as objective fatigue, cadence, strike angle and foot impact.

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Technology Transfer Office

EPFL Innovation Park J
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

Phone: +41 (0) 21 693 70 23