 Mi je Laura Spinardi, head of the Technology Transfer Office in fundazione IRX Cagrando Spedale Maggiore Polikliniko. Technology transfer is a complex process that brings results from basic research to apply the user and back to society. In the medical biofield, this is an even more complex process and the importance is indeed to the impact on the society that are going to benefit from the research results in general from translational research in order to improve health care, patient welfare and at the end benefit for the whole society. Scientific results can be protected by different tools meaning patenting, trademark registration, copyrights and also trade secrets. The very important things that I would like to highlight is the fact that those are only tools so it's not a question of only identifying and protecting them in order to collect them like in a library but the most important thing is that after protecting them they need to be fostered and exploited in order to bring these innovative results that are protected and therefore controlled by the owner of the protection in order to apply those innovative solutions, very often technical solutions to product for the benefit of the whole society. The final impact is always to improve society, welfare and return to the society itself.