They made it possible for us to summarize and edit the results of experience acquired over a long period of time concerning the valorization of results of university research for various technologies as well as to explore and describe the situation regarding the valorization of results of university research for social innovations. [...] The third valorization chain presented in this document includes, for its part, the valorization of the results of university research leading to commercial use and to the distribution of broadband application software by a private company. [...] The valorization chain described here concerns university research freely carried out by the university researcher interested above all in the advancement of science and the development of knowledge, but not necessarily guided by the economic dimension of the results obtained. [...] B. Three phases and nineteen stages We can distinguish three phases in this chain, from obtaining promising research results (the invention) to a commercialized product or service (the innovation): • the actual valorization of the invention, carried out by the university community; • the technology transfer, where the rights connected to the use of the invention are literally transferred from the [...] Valorization is the result of teamwork centred upon the researcher responsible for the invention, supported by the valorization officer in charge of the latter’s project who brings into the technolog es.