MRO AND SUPPLY CHAIN
Technology-transfer offices in Asia hold licensable aerospace methods with no buyer
Patented processes for coatings, ice detection and inspection sit unlicensed because suppliers never encounter them.
Aerospace Garage desk
Technology-transfer offices across India, Saudi Arabia and Thailand hold aerospace-relevant patents — thermal barrier coating methods, ice-detection techniques, atmospheric correction algorithms — that have never been licensed. In most cases nobody in industry has seen them.
Licensing terms from these institutions are typically far softer than from Western universities, because the objective is deployment and local industrial development rather than revenue maximisation.
For a mid-market supplier this is the cheapest route to differentiated capability: a licence and a qualification programme, rather than years of internal research.
Our read: check the transfer-office portfolio before commissioning development. The method you need may already be patented, unlicensed and available at modest cost.
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