Licensing
License a specific catalogued technology from the Marketplace — from maize TIMPs to industrial crop value-addition methods — for production or distribution.
From research into economic activity
KALRO's research has a real history of commercialisation and value-chain partnership — but until now, it hasn't had a public front door. This page is that front door: three pathways, one honest gap, and a real example of what structured partnership already looks like.
3Partnership pathways
1Documented partnership case study
0Public deal-tracking systems before this page
Three pathways
Choose how you'd like to engage
Industry Collaboration
Partner on value-chain work — agro-processing, raw materials, or value addition — building on the same mandate that already drives the Industrial Crops Research Institute.
Startup Engagement
An early-stage, lighter-weight pathway for ag-tech ventures looking to build on KALRO's research base rather than license a finished technology outright.
What partnership already looks like
CGIAR & the Excellence in Breeding partnership
Active partnership
20 yrs
of historical maize breeding data digitised into a shared Breeding Management System, developed with CGIAR's Excellence in Breeding (EiB) platform — including equipment transfer and training of KALRO breeders.
This is the clearest documented example of KALRO engaging an external partner in a structured, resourced way — not just a research collaboration on paper, but real infrastructure and capability transfer.
It's also the honest reference point for what's currently public: this case study, surfaced through research reporting, rather than a repeatable, browsable partnership programme. The three pathways above are how that changes — turning one good example into a standing front door.
See it in the Technology MarketplaceThere's no public deal-tracking system behind this page yet — every inquiry below routes to a real person at the relevant institute, the same way the CGIAR/EiB partnership above would have started. As inquiries convert into agreements, they'll begin appearing in the Impact Dashboard's commercialisation metric.
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The relevant institute contact will follow up with you directly.
Want to see commercialisation activity over time?
The Impact Dashboard tracks this as a national metric — currently an honest empty state, filling in as inquiries become agreements.