Networking Tips for Technology Transfer Professionals
In a previous blog post I wrote about the importance of using social media to connect with stakeholders in tech transfer. Now it’s time to step out from behind the…
How Do I Gain Tech Transfer Experience?
One of the most requested qualifications our clients ask for is experience. It’s non-negotiable in tech transfer because this demanding job has a lot of intricacies that are only realized…
University Commercialization Training for Researchers Gains in Popularity
Several years ago medical schools began offering coursework on small business management. After all they noted doctors, in addition to becoming physicians upon graduation and coursework completion, became small business…
Aligning University Licensing and Intellectual Property Operations With Industrial Innovation Models
The goal to eliminate the university-industry innovation gap is something that we all strive towards as members of the technology transfer community as we position our intellectual property for licensing…
Talent Management for Tech Transfer: First, Break All The Rules
Let’s face it. The technology transfer environment requires a broad set of skill sets across intellectual property, contracting, science, business, and investment realms. This is not a place for specialization;…
University-Industry Relationship Models: Washington State University
The lines between groups on campus that interface with industry at universities are beginning to blur. Functional areas like technology transfer, corporate relations, foundation relations, and economic development are being…
The Question You Should Ask All Faculty: So, What Else Are You Working On?
The World Cup is into the Round of 16, the outcome of an extended process of competitions between the world’s best soccer teams and their players. Like the players’ skill…
Want to win at tech transfer? Learn how to inflict pain
Longer road trips or plane flights to meet with tech transfer clients and candidates afford me with time to really think about what differentiates exceptional from average practitioners and offices—where…
Leading Technology Transfer Professionals: Quality #8: Empowered
You show me an office full of tech transfer professionals that fear their director/VP and I’ll show you an underperforming office. Don’t believe me, then you are probably that Machiavellian…
Impact Investing: Student-run Venture Funds
Student-run Venture Funds (SVFs) are exciting investment programs that leading research institutions are implementing to both educate students and to support the development of new businesses. Our partner, innovosource, has…
U-I Relationship Models: The Penn State University
The Pennsylvania State University significantly changed its approach to managing intellectual property resulting from industry-sponsored research effective July 1,2012. Ron Huss, Associate VP for Research and Technology Transfer and Director…
U-I Relationship Models: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In a town of around 80,000, roughly two hours South of Chicago, sits the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and one of the best examples of an integrated approach to…
U-I Relationship Models: University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota and its Office of Technology Commercialization has their act together when it comes to leading the way on new tactics and initiatives to encourage industrial research…
A Golden Opportunity: The AUTM Annual Meeting
A Golden Opportunity: The AUTM Annual Meeting Fresh off of a stint as an Olympic volunteer on the slopes of Sochi (no kidding), I am excited to return to American…
U-I Relationship Models: University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba identified the requisite of many industry partners to manage the IP originating from the research they were funding through partnerships. The University of Manitoba launched their…
U-I Relationship Models: Tech Launch Arizona
Something is heating in up in Arizona and we are not just talking about the desert sun and prospects for year-round golf. The University’s technology commercialization engine, Tech Launch Arizona…
Models for Streamlining University-Industry Relationships
The approach to the university-industry relationship is evolving with the times. To examine this evolution, we are partnering with innovosource to catalog and showcase some of these models to the tech transfer…
Technical and community colleges claim their position in the future of innovation
You don’t have to have hundreds of millions of dollars in research expenditures, expansive research equipment and facilities, or a thick curriculum catalog to win in the world of innovation….
Expanding tech transfer capabilities through an E-I-R program
Recently, we’ve received a lot of calls and emails that generally sound like this: “I’m a recently retired/downsized/bored executive at company x. I’ve had extensive experience in other companies like…
How (not) to manage your tech transfer student interns
A perk of placing talented tech transfer professionals in new positions is the unique perspective that I gain on the spectrum of tech transfer office functions and configurations. One observation…
