PhotonTransfer.com is a trusted service provider in areas of technology watch, technology scouting and IP brokerage for companies, research institutions, universities, scientists and professionals in the field of photonics technologies worldwide.
PhotonTransfer was originally created as a marketplace to bridge the gap between science and market, serving as an innovative intellectual property (IP) marketplace and on-line technology transfer facilitator for a wide gamut of photonics technologies through market listings.
The PhotonTransfer platform has been a conceptualization of value co-creation of 3 international companies:
- Transcarbon International Corporation, based in Silicon Valley, USA, with focus on environmental sustainably,
- Scanmine, based in Norway with broad know-how in media intelligence research
- PhotonExport, based in Barcelona, Spain, with vast expertise in technology transfer, acceleration and photonics technologies.
ABOUT IP MARKETPLACE & TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Taken in a broad context, technology transfer is everything related with achieving the deployment of technology, from research and development, to production, to sale and finally to installation and operations. The “intellectual property market” or “IP market” describes the transactions that occur in transferring the ability to produce goods and services. Examples of these market transactions include joint ventures, licensing, acquisitions, and joint research and development.
ABOUT PHOTONICS
The science of photonics includes the generation, emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and detection/sensing of light. The term photonics thereby emphasises that photons are neither particles nor waves — they have the nature of both particles and waves.
It covers all technical applications of light over the whole spectrum from ultraviolet over the visible to the near-, mid- and far-infrared.
Optics and photonics technologies are central to modern life; indeed, UNESCO has adopted a resolution declaring 2015 to be the International Year of Light.
These technologies enable the manufacture and inspection of all the integrated circuits in every electronic device in use. They give us displays on our smartphones and computing devices, optical fibres that carry the information in the Internet, advanced precision fabrication, and medical diagnostics tools.
People do not think of Google as an optics company, but a typical Google data centre has more than a million lasers in it.
Optics and photonics technology offers the potential for even greater societal impact over the next few decades. Solar power generation and new efficient lighting, for example, could transform the energy landscape, and new optical capabilities will be essential to support the continued exponential growth of the Internet. Optics and photonics technology development and applications have increased substantially across the globe over the past several years.