Last week we were part of a hands-on deep tech workshop, Checklist for Commercializing Your Invention, where an experienced team of experts shared invaluable knowledge, processes, mistakes and tips that can help you with your deep tech venture.

Nina Dremelj guided the participants through the basics of successful commercialization and presented the key milestones - from optimizing technology transfer, market entry, growth, raising capital to exit. 

The answer to the question of what not to overlook when establishing a company and other legal questions was given by Ambrož Arko, attorney at law from Nlaw. He talked about the pre-startup phase, the startup phase and the investment phase of the process for an attorney's point of view.

As Tadej Černivec points out, managing intellectual property is not only key to commercializing a deep tech company, but also has other important benefits.  With a properly protected and secured invention, your company will be more valuable to potential investors and strategic partners. 

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The program is co-financed from the Slovene Enterprise Fund and the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund. This is implemented on the basis of the Content Support for Funds Recipients (SMEs) Programme in the 2018-2023 period, under the Operational Programme for the Implementation of the European Cohesion Policy 2014-2020.