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CATEGORY: Research Intelligence

Top 10 Things Every Post Award Professional Needs to Know

Welcome to the complex, high-stakes world of Post-Award Grant Management! In the research ecosystem, the pre-award team gets the glory of winning the funding, but the post-award team has the critical job of actually keeping the money—and ensuring everyone stays out of federal trouble.

April 27, 2026 • 3 mins

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CATEGORY: From Lab to Market

The Class of 2025: Breakthrough University Spinouts You Need to Know About

When we talk about university research, it’s easy to get lost in abstract theories and decades-long timelines. But the reality of modern Technology Transfer is that the future is being built, licensed, and launched into the market right now.

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CATEGORY: Research Intelligence

Top 10 Things Every Post Award Professional Needs to Know

Welcome to the complex, high-stakes world of Post-Award Grant Management! In the research ecosystem, the pre-award team gets the glory of winning the funding, but the post-award team has the critical job of actually keeping the money—and ensuring everyone stays out of federal trouble.

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CATEGORY: Research Intelligence

Top 10 Things Every New Tech Transfer Professional Needs to Know

If you’ve just stepped into a university Tech Transfer Office (TTO), you are probably realizing that this job is a unique hybrid of science, law, business, and diplomacy. You are the bridge between groundbreaking academic research and real-world market impact.

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CATEGORY: Research Intelligence

Bridging the Gap: How AI Matchmaking Connects Academic IP with Corporate Partners

Imagine a brilliant materials science team at a university. They’ve just developed a sustainable, hyper-durable polymer. Across the globe, a multinational automotive corporation is desperately searching for exactly this type of material to reduce the weight of their electric vehicles.

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CATEGORY: From Lab to Market

Solving An IP Hostage Problem with Dynamic Licensing

Imagine this: a team of university researchers makes a breakthrough discovery that could revolutionize renewable energy. The university's Tech Transfer Office (TTO) swiftly files a patent. But then, the innovation suddently stops dead in its tracks....

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CATEGORY: From Lab to Market

The Modern Tech Transfer Office

For decades, the journey of academic research was painfully predictable: a brilliant discovery was made in a university lab, a patent was filed, and the intellectual property was locked away in a filing cabinet, waiting for a massive corporation to write a licensing check. But the world has changed. Today, the most forward-thinking universities realize that innovation doesn't happen by simply hoarding patents. It happens by building businesses.

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CATEGORY: Mission Control

Introducing the Team Behind Moonbase

If you’re new here, let us officially introduce ourselves. At Moonbase, we build a predictive AI software designed specifically for universities. Our mission is to empower academic institutions by providing innovative tools to seamlessly navigate, manage, and visualize complex research data. We are building the future of academic tech, but a mission this ambitious requires a truly stellar team. Today, we want to pull back the curtain and introduce you to the minds behind Moonbase. We are a global, remote-first team bringing together diverse backgrounds, unique passions, and a shared vision for the future.

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CATEGORY: Moonbase Onboarding

Your Command Center: A Step-by-Step Guide to Institutional Onboarding

Setting up your "Moonbase" isn’t just about activating a piece of software; it’s about building the digital infrastructure for your institution's future discoveries. To get your team of researchers and administrators into the cockpit, you first need to bring them on board.

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CATEGORY: Moonbase Features

Proposal Scoring AI Now Live: The End of "Blind" Submissions

The submission process has traditionally been a "black box." You pour months of labor into a proposal, hit send, and wait weeks or months for a verdict—often receiving little feedback on why a project failed to make the cut. Today, Moonbase is opening that box. We are excited to announce that Proposal Scoring AI is now live, giving your institution the power to evaluate and refine grants before they ever leave your building.

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CATEGORY: Moonbase Features

Introducing GrantSignal™: Moonbase’s Real-Time Funding Radar

Every groundbreaking research institution knows the pain: brilliant ideas, poised to change the world, often drift unseen through the vast vacuum of missed funding calls. The frustration of discovering a perfect grant opportunity just days after the deadline, or sifting through countless irrelevant programs, is a universal challenge in the research community

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