Technology Market Intermediaries (TMI) are currently emerging on the markets for technologies attempting torealize business opportunities and facilitate the technology and IP transactions supporting firms and othermarkets actors (e.g. universities). They aim to support open innovation, respectively facilitate more economicallytechnology and particularly IP transactions. However, our understanding of TMIs and their roles needs tobe considered incomplete.In this paper I provide evidence on the growing number of TMIs and derived a conceptual basis for a furtherunderstanding of TMIs. The inherent difficulties of intellectual property monetization present a challenge fortechnology based enterprises and business opportunities for IP firms. Following a literature review, I develop atypology for TMIs. Having carried out a review of the literature I compiled a mix of primary and secondarydata on about 70 TMIs. Applying the ‘nine business model building blocks’ from Osterwalder (2004) I identify12 different TMI types which I then consolidate into sixe TMI archetypes using the framework for ‘businessmodels archetypes’ of Herman and Malone (2003).
