Technology Transfer Consulting

The bridge between proven innovation and global manufacturing.

LDV Innovations finds breakthrough technology inside small, novel companies and connects it with the OEMs that can take it to scale. We source the match, structure the deal, and stay at the table until it is signed.

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Licensing Acquisition Joint Development IP Strategy

The Problem We Solve

Every year, thousands of viable technologies never reach a production line.

Not because the science fails. Because a twelve person startup and a fifty thousand person manufacturer speak different languages, move at different speeds, and have no reliable way to find each other. LDV Innovations exists to close that gap, deal by deal.

Services in Full

Six services covering the entire transfer, from first scan to signed agreement

Engage us for one service or the whole path. Most clients start with scouting or IP assessment and continue through to close.

Technology Scouting

We start where most OEMs get stuck: finding the right technology in the first place. Working from a precise definition of your capability gap, we run a structured search across venture-backed startups, university spinouts, national lab portfolios, patent databases, and specialist suppliers in your target domain.

You do not receive a directory dump. Every candidate on the shortlist has been screened for technical credibility, IP ownership clarity, manufacturing feasibility, and willingness to engage. We tell you which ones are worth a meeting and, just as importantly, which are not.

Licensing Advisory

Licensing is the fastest route to market for most transferred technology, and the easiest place to get the economics wrong. We design the licence structure around how the technology will actually be used: exclusive or non-exclusive, field-of-use boundaries, territory, sublicensing rights, improvements, and termination triggers.

On commercial terms we benchmark royalty rates and upfront payments against comparable deals in your sector, then model the outcomes for both parties so nobody signs an agreement they will resent in year three. We sit on whichever side of the table you retain us for, and we say plainly when a proposed term is unreasonable.

Acquisition and Buyout Support

Sometimes a licence is not enough. When a technology is core to your product roadmap, or when the team behind it matters as much as the IP, an outright acquisition or asset buyout is the right structure. We support the full path: target identification, valuation framing, approach strategy, and diligence coordination.

We work alongside your corporate development, legal, and engineering teams rather than replacing them, and we handle the parts that consistently derail these deals: managing founder expectations, keeping technical diligence on schedule, and planning what happens to the acquired team on day one after close.

IP Strategy and Assessment

A technology is only transferable if its intellectual property is clean, defensible, and legible to the other side. We assess patent families for scope and strength, flag freedom-to-operate risks, identify gaps where know-how is protected by nothing but goodwill, and check for encumbrances such as government funding conditions or prior licences.

For technology companies, we go a step further and package the portfolio: turning a scattered set of filings and lab notebooks into an IP story an OEM's legal team can evaluate in an afternoon. That packaging routinely changes the valuation conversation.

Commercialization Roadmapping

Signing the deal is not the finish line. We build the roadmap that takes a lab-proven technology into a manufacturable product: prioritising the applications with the shortest path to revenue, identifying the engineering work required to bridge readiness levels, and designing pilot programmes that prove the case internally.

For OEMs, this de-risks the internal business case. For technology companies, it shows a prospective partner exactly what integration will require, which is often the difference between interest and commitment.

Partnership Facilitation

Not every transfer fits a licence or a purchase. Joint development agreements, co-manufacturing arrangements, equity partnerships, and strategic alliances all have a place, and they all live or die on whether the two organisations can actually work together.

We act as the neutral party through the relationship: structuring the agreement, defining who owns what is invented next, setting governance and decision rights, and staying engaged when internal priorities shift on one side and momentum starts to drain. Most stalled technology deals do not fail on terms. They fail on translation, and that is the gap we close.

The Process

Four stages. You always know where the deal stands.

STAGE 01

Scout

Define the capability gap in testable terms, then scan the landscape and return a validated shortlist. Typically three to six weeks.

STAGE 02

Validate

Assess readiness, IP position, and commercial fit. We convene the first technical exchanges under NDA.

STAGE 03

Structure

Model the options, benchmark comparable terms, and draft a term sheet framework so counsel starts from a running start.

STAGE 04

Close

Stay at the table through negotiation and diligence, keeping momentum when internal priorities shift.

4deal structures we work in: licensing, acquisition, joint development, and strategic alliance

2sides of every deal understood, so terms hold up long after signature

1point of contact from the first call through to close and handover

Who We Work With

Both sides of the table

Large OEMs and manufacturers who need to access external innovation faster than internal R&D alone can deliver it.
Novel technology companies with proven IP that need a manufacturing and distribution partner to reach real scale.
Research spinouts, labs, and independent inventors looking for the right commercial path for their patents.
Investors and corporate venture teams assessing the transferability of a technology before committing capital.

If you are an OEM

We filter the noise, de-risk unproven vendors, and package external technology in a form your procurement, legal, and engineering teams can act on immediately.

If you have the technology

We open doors cold outreach cannot, and protect your interests when negotiating with an organisation a thousand times your size. Your IP position gets stronger before it gets tested.

Have a technology need, or a technology to offer?

Tell us about it in the intake questionnaire. It takes five minutes and means our first call starts with ideas instead of introductions.

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