Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology request
- POD Reference
- TRBE20240516023
- Term of Validity
- 16 May 2024 - 16 May 2025
- Company's Country
- Belgium
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- A Belgian multinational active in the consumer goods is seeking products and technologies which allow users to benefit from a healthy, resting and qualitative sleep, so as to contribute to a better quality of life both in the professional and private dimensions. The company is looking for solutions that are on-market, market-ready, or require limited development. Licence agreement or commercial agreement with technical assistance is sought with industrial players or academia.
- Full Description
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Sleep disorders or lack of qualitative sleep are more and more common in our society and may contribute in the raising of the risk of many diseases (ranging from heart disease, stroke, obesity and dementia) or lowering the immune system.
In order to diversify and complement the current portfolio of products designed to help the sleeping process, the Belgian multinational is looking for solutions towards a healthy sleep. This can include new product forms, packaging innovations, delivery technologies, new devices or apps, or new products.
The solutions sought must be capable of delivering any or all of the following benefits:
• Providing new, or augmenting already established health claims
• Increasing consumer satisfaction
• Enhancing consumer compliance
• Enabling greater convenience
They areas of interest are:
o Technology Delivery methods (e.g. targeted, faster, delayed, etc.)
o Devices and Apps that enable good sleep health
o Products with claimable health benefits
o New and novel product forms
o New packaging (e.g., portable, convenient, etc.)
The Belgian company is therefore looking for collaboration with industrial partners able to provide the expected solution.
The kind of expected collaboration is a commercial agreement with technical assistance or a licence agreement allowing the large account envisage discussions on the terms of the licence use. - Stage of Development
- Available for demonstration
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being
- IPR description
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The company is looking for products or technologies which MUST have (where applicable):
o Human clinical data
o Human safety data, NDI (new dietary ingredient) designation, or GRAS ( Generally Recognized As Safe) status
o Stability data
o Freedom to market
The company is NOT interested in products or technologies :
• which require extensive technical or clinical development
• with unknown regulatory path
• that require significant investment to complete their development
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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Type of partner sought : industrial player or academia
Role of the partner: collaborate with the large account with a view to reach a win-win agreement on the solution the large account is looking for - Type and Size of Partner
- SME 11-49
- SME 50 - 249
- R&D Institution
- University
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 01004001 - Applications for Health
- 03010 - Household Goods & Appliances
- 01001002 - Digital Systems, Digital Representation
- 03004011 - Care, Hygiene, Beauty
- Market keywords
- 09004008 - Other manufacturing (not elsewhere classified)
- 07004008 - Other consumer products
- Sector Groups Involved
- Health
- Targeted countries
- All countries