What are the chances that my idea will be a success?
Only a fraction of disclosures submitted to R&E will go forward and form the basis of a licence and of that fraction only a portion will produce significant royalties. Exploiting technology is very speculative in nature and R&E attempts to pursue those inventions in which it believes has the greatest chance of success. An invention for example in the bio-medical field will take on average ten to eleven years after the invention is disclosed before it begins to generate significant royalties.
