University and regional innovation analysis
Your research is world-class. Is it reaching the market?
Start with a locally tailored analysis from the university perspective. Then bring in the research office, tech transfer team, economic development partners, investors, and industry leaders who see the ecosystem from other angles. The result is a shared analysis of where research, talent, and capital connect, and where the handoffs break.
AUTM benchmarks show what your institution produced. A shared ecosystem analysis shows whether the surrounding region can convert that research into companies, jobs, and reinvestment.
Start with your perspective
Build the first analysis in five minutes.
Choose a place and your role. The diagnostic configures its questions around the institutions and conditions in that ecosystem.
One ecosystem, analyzed together
Turn different vantage points into a shared analysis
The university research and innovation perspective is one part of the evidence. Ecosystem Navigator brings it together with the people who experience the ecosystem differently, then gives the group a structured analysis to investigate and revisit.
Individual analysis
Run a locally tailored diagnostic from your own vantage point. The free version takes 10 questions and about five minutes.
Group exercise
Invite people who see the ecosystem from different angles. Everyone answers the same question spine independently.
Shared analysis
Compare where perspectives align, where they diverge, and which constraints or priorities recur across the group.
Deeper investigation
Use Explore and five Deep Dive modules to test what the first analysis puts on the table.
Repeated measurement
Repeat a fixed exercise to see what changed, what held, and where the next round of work should begin.
Sound Familiar?
These are the questions that keep research VPs and TTO directors up at night. The diagnostic tells you where you actually stand.
"Our disclosures are up, but spinoffs aren't."
The diagnostic traces where the handoff breaks — between your TTO, local capital, and industry absorptive capacity. It's usually not your TTO's fault.
"We produce great graduates. They leave."
Brain drain isn't a university problem alone — it's a signal that the local economy lacks complex knowledge systems to retain talent. The diagnostic quantifies this gap.
"Industry doesn't engage with our research."
The diagnostic evaluates knowledge transfer efficiency — are local firms even aware of what you offer? Is the TTO structured to facilitate applied collaboration, or just licensing?
"The provost wants proof of economic impact."
Annual reports count patents and licenses. This diagnostic scores your institution's role in a living ecosystem — contribution to the Virtuous Innovation Cycle that drives regional growth.
What You Get From the Platform
A single report clarifies your institution's role. Session diagnostics show whether the surrounding ecosystem sees the same constraints.
Localized Baseline
A scored read on how research, talent, capital, and commercialization pathways connect around your institution.
Session Diagnostics
Invite research, tech transfer, economic development, industry, and investor voices to answer the same question spine.
Evidence Base
Each run adds answers, scores, assets, recommendations, and citations to a record of how the university-region ecosystem is changing.
Decision Outputs
Executive-ready reports, PDF export, share links, stakeholder briefs, and actions framed for university leaders and partners.
Not Another Survey. Not ChatGPT.
AUTM metrics tell you what your office produced. This tells you whether the ecosystem around you is converting it into economic value.
- Disclosures filed: 47
- Licenses executed: 12
- Startups formed: 3
- Licensing revenue: $1.2M
- “Local firms rate awareness of your research a 2.1/5. The bottleneck isn’t your TTO — it’s that the absorptive capacity of local SMEs is low.”
- “Phase I scores 4.2 (strong inputs) but Phase II scores 2.4 — the handoff from lab to market is where the ecosystem breaks.”
- “Three accelerators within 30km are not connected to your research output. Consider...”
Questions from Research Leaders
I'm a VP Research, not an economic developer. Is this for me?▾
Will the questions make sense for a university context?▾
Can I use this report in presentations to the provost or board?▾
How is this different from asking ChatGPT about our ecosystem?▾
What does the free version include?▾
Can multiple people at my institution run the diagnostic?▾
Five Minutes. Your Ecosystem. Your Perspective.
You already know your research is strong. Find out if the ecosystem around it is keeping up.
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