Inventa Partners Limited - Technology Commercialisation

Inventa Partners offers a service that is specific to client needs. In assisting our clients in the realisation of significant commercial advantage we have provided the following innovation services for our clients.

Technology Discovery

Our access to the UK’s research and development base enables us to provide clients with an unrivalled ability to access information on ‘disruptive’ technologies. Often a client wants to verify a solution choice, a supplier choice, or consider what technologies exist that could facilitate a current project. This service will often lead to the identification of a technology that the client will wish to adopt at a later date.

Technology Due-diligence

We can provide clients with independent commercial and technical due-diligence. We are in the unique position to be able to bring a wealth of management and commercial experience along with significant technical understanding to assist clients in the process of due-diligence for a project, opportunity or ‘new’ technology. We may even be able to suggest more appropriate ‘alternative’ technologies to meet your commercial objectives.

Technology Adoption

Invariably in all technology transfer negotiations there is an ‘imbalance of bargaining power’ between the technology acquirer and the technology owner. This is exaggerated by miss-aligned or miss-understood objectives, which are often hampered by confused communication. Through our extensive management experience we can bring the benefit of understanding both perspectives and the communication issues and commercial assumptions encountered, to assist in mediating the transaction to a successful conclusion for both parties.

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Tri-Air Developments Ltd
January 2006

www.tri-airdevelopments.com

A joint venture company formed between Inventa Partners Ltd, Promanade Ltd and BRE Ltd in January 2006 to commercialise a revolutionary Air Purification Technology. Tri-Air Developments Ltd is the legal owner of the IPR (containing the technology, UK patent application, PCT and know-how) for the Technology previously held by Promanade Ltd.

The Technology has achieved a 99.9999% effectiveness in killing an airborne surrogate test virus present in less than 5 minutes (Ref: The UK HPA Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Porton Down, June 2006). Tri-Air Developments believe this is 100 times more effective than current methods of decontamination and will work on a wide range of airborne viruses, bacteria and spores including MRSA, SARS, Bird Flu and Anthrax, as well as eradicating ‘smoke’ caused by smokers and unpleasant ‘odours’. The technology has also been tested at the UK Health & Safety Laboratory, where it was found to produce 1000th of the concentration of hydroxyl radicals normally found in outdoor fresh air, making it more than acceptable to be used around humans and animals.

“It’s almost so good that nobody is going to believe it, it is one of the most important developments in air quality engineering over the past 50 years, with a very wide range of potential uses. As fast as we thought of one big area, we came up with another one,” said Martin Wyatt, chief executive of the Buildings Research Establishment, a former government agency that has been involved with the development over the past 18 months.

Tri-Air Developments has appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers as commercial advisors and is in the process of approaching organisations interested in licensing or purchasing Tri-Air Developments technology.

“This is a very real and timely breakthrough in air de-contamination technology and comes at a time when the public and private sectors are seeking effective methods of combating the threat to public health and business continuity from flu virus pandemics.”
Gideon Davenport, Director.

Namibian Beetle Wins Building Services Award for Inventa and QinetiQ
New Material to save Billions of Litres lost daily from AC (Air-Conditioning) Systems
19th November 2004

The ‘Bright Spark’ BSRIA/ BSJ building services industry award has been won by Inventa Partners and QinetiQ for the development and application of a revolutionary new material that copies the properties of the wing surface of the Namibian desert beetle for collecting precious drinking water from an invisible mist. Prototypes are now under test for industrial applications that include recycling the water lost by the evaporating cooling towers used by AC (air-conditioning) systems.

The new material could save many billions of litres currently lost every day through evaporation from AC systems – which is a major cost and environmental problem for developed regions. There are more than 50,000 new cooling towers installed globally each year, and one large system will evaporate over 500 million litres each year. The heating and ventilation industry is valued at £65 billion a year globally, and is projected to increase to £80 billion by 2006:

“We are now commercialising the application with a leading building services partner and anticipate that it will go into production during 2005,” says Kerry Thompson, Director of Inventa Partners, who identify new commercial opportunities for building sector companies, arising from new technologies.

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