★Identify and approach companies interested in
investing in or harvesting
innovations of client firms

★Identify technologies,
products, and
companies in whose
innovations client firms
can invest and harvest

★Client firms would negotiate
various rights relating to
the outcome of such
relationships

•Right to purchase or
license technologies
on an exclusive basis

•Right of first refusal to
purchase companies
or innovations into which
client firms invested

•Preclude client firms’
competitors from
benefiting from such
relationships