INTRODUCTION Technology Transfer and Commercialization with Cliff Zintgraff Program Manager,
About The mission of is to help build a globally competitive and sustainable science and technology commercialization infrastructure in Portugal. UTEN is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
UT Austin | Portugal CoLab is one of four programs in the International Collaboratory for Emerging Technologies, or CoLab. UTEN works toward sustainable technology transfer in the program areas, and in other disciplines. Digital Media Advanced Computing Math Other Areas UTEN
UTEN Executive Board INESC Porto: José Mendonça, Chair TecMinho: Manuel Mota, Jamie Ferreira, Marta Catarino UPIN, University of Porto: Jorge Gonçalves, Maria Oliveira IPN: Teresa Mendes IST: Rui Baptista, Maria José Francisco
Organizations 1.University of Algarve 2.IST 3.Taguspark 4.University of Lisbon / IMM 5.New University of Lisbon 6.INPI 7.University of Evora 8.IPN / University of Coimbra 9.University of Aveiro 10.University of Porto / UPIN 11.University of Porto / UPTEC 12.University of Porto / FEUP 13.TecMaia 14.University of Minho / TecMinho 15.University of Tres-os-Montes at Alto Douro
Technologies / Companies (sampling) 1.Bioalvo 2.Fluidinova 3.WeAdapt 4.PETSYS 5.AuditMark 6.Critical – RetMarker 7.BlueWorks 8.iSurgical 3D And more at …
What Is Sustainable Tech Transfer? Productive researchers Who know how to work with TT staff & industry Professional University TT staff Office strategy Tech assessment Market analysis Licensing Supportive administration Entrepreneurs Local, national and global networks Focused on the market
UTEN Activities University Research License or Commercialize Market L I V E C A S E S Assessment Training Internships Education
UTEN Values Our “Style” Global market orientation Grassroots development Live cases Change agents / bias for action
Education 10-point curriculum for TT staff Integrated with live cases Strategy -> tactics -> execution
Training National workshops Local workshops One-on-one sessions
Assessment Portfolio Assessment Global Market Assessment Brutal focus on market perceptions.
Internships U.S. based Strategic goals for TTOs Embedded in U.S. organization Portfolio review / tech development
Today -- Researcher Workshop 11:00Introduction 11:15Pitch Camp 12:00Best (and Worst) Researcher Practices 12:45Wrap-up Panel 13:30Close
Entrepreneur Workshop 1.Introduction 2.Global Market Strategy 3.Global Market Assessment
Guidelines for today 1.Pick a technology. 2.We won’t stop, but you can take a break when the time is right.
Researcher Workshop -- The UTEN Way Interactive Engaging (we hope) Live-case based Everyone involved – and if you’re not …
INTRODUCTION Technology Transfer and Commercialization with Cliff Zintgraff Program Manager,
PITCH CAMP Heath Naquin, Tom Gardner,
Reseacher’s Best (and Worst) Practices in Technology Transfer
STARRING Heath Naquin as himself Cliff Zintgraff as Dr. Jones Tom Gardner as Discussion Leader
About The Mock Interviews Two inventor interviews Just like in our RapidScreen assessment That reflect real interviews we’ve done That kindly highlight some issues about how researchers could/should deal with commercialization professionals
Disclaimer Any similarity to real persons or projects is totally on purpose.
INTERVIEW 1 “Rapid Response Contextual Phrase Matching with Enhancements from Frequency Domain Searches ”
INTERVIEW 1 DISCUSSION
INTERVIEW 2 “EduPath – Solving Our Alignment Problems in Education ”
INTERVIEW 2 DISCUSSION
Panel: Working With Your Tech Transfer Office Marta Catarino TecMinho Dina Chaves Pedro Vilarinho New University of Lisbon Nuno Silva Miguel Castanho University of Lisbon / IMM Eli Mercer
Name one behavior we discussed this morning – good or bad – that you’ve seen personally. Tell us about it! Tell us the impact of the behavior on the project you were working on.
What is the most important advice you can give researchers about working with your office?
UTEN Researcher Workshop is underway! Join us in the Auditorium, right back corner of showroom.