Processes

Acquire and license research knowledge

How acquire and license research knowledge are reshaped as AGI capability advances.

ProcessesAcquire and license research knowledge
Acquire and license research knowledge — illustrated

The bottom line

Roughly 85% of the work in Acquire and license research knowledge is information-shaped — already within reach of AI delivery. The question here is not whether it shifts, but which tasks go first and who staffs the residual.

Why: With no seeded child occupations available, this score relies on the process name and industry context. 'Acquire and license research knowledge' is an information-centric legal and business process centered on intellectual property assessment, negotiation, and contract drafting—cognitive tasks performed almost entirely via computers and document management systems.

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Business-as-Code

Read as an executable program — the work decomposed into Code, Generative, Agentic, and Human.

Acquire and license research knowledge sits inside a larger value-flow — 1 parent structure it composes into. The hierarchy is grounding, not the story: it tells you which aggregate exposure Acquire and license research knowledge inherits.

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How the work flows

Trigger: A strategic research gap or pipeline expansion opportunity requires external intellectual property or scientific data.

  1. Identify R&D capability gaps and strategic IP needs
  2. Scout external academic institutions, biotech firms, and patent databases
  3. Conduct scientific, commercial, and legal due diligence on potential targets
  4. Negotiate licensing terms, milestone payments, and royalty structures
  5. Execute formal licensing and technology transfer agreements
  6. Ingest external data and research assets into internal R&D repositories

Outcome: Licensing agreements are executed and external research assets are integrated into the internal R&D portfolio.

Measured by

Time to Executed AgreementCost per Licensing DealLicensing Return on InvestmentVolume of In-Licensed Assets