Articles for TTOs - Writing Effective Technology Summaries

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Improving and Updating your Technologies (18th July 2025) - A quick overview of different ways to review and update your portfolio to boost engagement

Why your technology title matters: data-backed tips for success (25th October 2024) - We analyse the engagement data on thousands of techs to highlight the importance of keeping titles between 4 and 10 words long

Inpart Insights: Sector feedback analysis 2023 (22nd April 2024) - Exploring industry feedback received in 2023 to highlight areas for improvement in technology summaries

Drafting new technology summaries: Best practices and top tips for universities (17th August 2023) - Our guide to writing new technology summaries and where to source your information from

Technology Readiness Level – What is it and why is it important? (25th July 2023) - An overview of the TRL scale, and why you should include a TRL in your technology summaries

Webinar: What do R&D teams want from universities? (29th September 2020) - Industry panel webinar sharing what they look for in tech summaries, and their outlook on collaborations

Webinar- What do R&D teams need to see in a technology disclosure? (15th May 2020) - How to construct an effective technology summary 

Communicating science to industry: How to write an effective technology disclosure (1st November 2019) - Analysis of survey results looking at what makes an effective technology summary 

How do R&D teams evaluate new opportunities? (7th May 2019) - Interview with R&D experts breaking down what they look for 

Top Performing Techs

• A Seed Treatment To Protect Crops From Plant Parasitic Nematodes
• Rapid Mass Production of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs): Delivering High Affinity Reagents for Protein Recognition and Biosensing
• Inhibitors for Atopic Diseases
• Stabilised RNA Therapeutics
• Foamed Marble for Building and Packaging
• Steatotic Liver Disease Therapeutics in Low-IGF-X patient
• Chaperone-mediated Autophagy Modulators for Enhancing Proteostasis and Treating Degenerative Disorders
• Porous Ultrafiltration PEEK Membranes
• Evaporation-powered Air Purification and Circulation Systems
• The Amine Functionalization of Nanocellulose and its Application for PFAS Removal as Adsorbent-based Coagulant

The above technology summaries are some of the best performing over a 12 month period, in terms of converting article reads into introductions and feedback. This high conversion rate is the result of engagingly written summaries, providing the correct level of detail to prompt further interest.