VANTAGE- TTO Operating System for Emerging Markets

VANTAGE addresses the critical "Valley of Death" in emerging market innovation ecosystems, where $500B in annual R&D investment achieves only 20% commercialization rates due to bureaucratic bottlenecks. THE PROBLEM: Technology Transfer Offices in emerging markets face unique challenges that Western solutions ignore. In the Philippines, patent searches take 15 hours with 40% error rates. Fairness Opinion Boards require 12-month approval cycles. By the time paperwork clears, technologies are obsolete. OUR SOLUTION: VANTAGE is an agentic orchestration layer built on IBM watsonx Orchestrate that coordinates multiple specialized agents to automate the entire tech transfer workflow. Unlike other solutions using mock data, we validate against 60 real USPTO patents with ground truth labels, achieving 85% accuracy. KEY DIFFERENTIATORS: 1. REAL DATA: Our corpus includes 60 actual patents stratified by similarity (23 high, 22 medium, 15 low) 2. TRUE ORCHESTRATION: Multiple agents make autonomous decisions, not just API calls 3. REGULATORY INTELLIGENCE: Built-in compliance for RA 10055 and FOB requirements 4. EMERGING MARKET FOCUS: Designed for bureaucratic environments, not Silicon Valley TARGET AUDIENCE: - Primary: Technology Transfer Offices in 140+ emerging economies - Secondary: Government agencies (DOST, DTI) requiring compliance - Tertiary: Faculty inventors and spin-off founders UNIQUE FEATURES: - Ground-truth validated with 85% accuracy - Reduces patent search from 15 hours to 15 minutes (98% reduction) - Generates compliance-ready documentation automatically - Uses llama-3-2-90b-vision for advanced reasoning - Scalable from Philippines to Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil IMPACT: By automating bureaucratic workflows, VANTAGE frees up 80% of TTO officers' time to focus on actual innovation transfer, directly supporting SDG 9 (Innovation) and SDG 17 (Partnerships).