Here is the UTEN 2012 Plan of activities, as approved by the Board of Directors and the External Review Committee on December 2011.

The Plan defines, as usual, the different lines of activities of UTEN. The date, place and content of each event will be announced in advance and as the events unfold, as some of the activities are long-term and therefore its implementation depends on the decision regarding the continuation of the program.

We very soon will be able to disseminate the first events to be carried out in 2012 by UTEN scheduled to the end of February, as well as other issues of importance to the operation of the UTEN Network.

José Manuel Mendonça
UTEN Scientific Director

On December 6, NCET2 and the Penn State Office of Technology Development will host a free webinar:

Technology Transfer at Pennsylvania State University
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
1:00-2:30 PM EST (18h00-19h30 Portugal time)
Free registration

The webinar is part of the NCET2 University Technology Showcase series.

Just in time for the UTEN workshop on Negotiation of Research Contracts comes this webinar:

Expert Corporate Relations Strategies for Long-Term Industry-TTO Partnerships
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
1:00-2:00 pm US EST / 18h00-19h00 Portugal time

Two upcoming webinars of possible interest from Technology Transfer Tactics:

IP-Included Label Licensing: A Win-Win Model for Maximizing Use of University Technologies
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
1:00-2:00 PM US Eastern time / 19h00-20h00 Portugal time

Exit Planning for University Start-Ups
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
1:00-2:30 PM US Eastern Time / 19h00-20h30 Portugal time

The National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2) has announced a new webinar series entitled, “President Obama’s Initiative on University Research Commercialization: How Universities Plan To Respond.”

The first session will be:

Commercialization at the University of Kansas and the University of Akron
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
1:00 to 1:30 PM EST (19h00 to 19h30 Portugal time)
Register now

Future webinar dates in the series:

November 17
November 22
November 29
December 5
December 13
December 20

Series description:

President Obama’s Initiative on University Research Commercialization: How Universities Plan To Respond

On September 16, 2011, President Obama announced new steps that will help America’s universities and research labs convert ideas into new products, create startups, expand the economy and create high-value 21st century jobs. In coordination with the Administration, 135 university presidents committed to working more closely with industry, investors, and agencies to bolster entrepreneurship, encourage university-industry collaboration, and advance the nation’s social and economic interests. The commitments are aimed at helping achieve the President’s goal of strengthening commercialization of the nearly $148 billion in annual federally-funded research and development.

The “President Obama’s Initiative on University Research Commercialization: How Universities Plan To Respond” webinar series will have university leaders highlight specific plans for following through on this commitment and bolstering their commercialization efforts, in direct response to the President’s call to action.

Each 30-minute webinar will feature 10-minute presentations from two universities discussing their commercialization initiatives. A Q&A period will be conducted after the presentations for the remainder of the time.

This series is tied in to the Presidents-Investors Summit, a pre-conference event at the 6th Annual University Startups Conference in January 18-20, 2012. The Summit will bring together university presidents, chancellors, provosts, vice-presidents, deans and the nation’s leading investors in technology startups to continue the discussion on the importance of universities in startup generation and job creation.

In preparation for the Summit and in conjunction with the webinar series, NCET2 has started a new project to benchmark and track the creation of startups by universities. The university startup database and map will locate and provide key information about the approximately 6000 university startups created since 1980. Going forward it will track annual startup creation by universities.

For complete information on the webinar series, please see the announcement at ncet2.org.

Mid-Atlantic Region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium, Maryland TEDCO and the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2) present a webinar series on “Demystifying Working with Federal Labs.”

NEXT SCHEDULED WEBINAR:

A Webinar on Stanford V. Roche from the Perspective of Federal Agencies
Thursday, July 28, 2011, 1:00 to 2:30 pm ET

To register, go to https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/539692819

SERIES DESCRIPTION:

On April 7, 2010, Office of Science and Technology Policy of the White House released its inaugural Open Government Plan highlighting transparency, participation, and collaboration.

“Demystifying Working with the Federal Labs” is a lecture series launched by the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium in order to render the technology transfer process at federal agencies more transparent, and to encourage collaborations with the federal labs. This lecture series aims to provide a platform for Federal Laboratories to educate academia, industry, and technology transfer professionals on different technology transfer mechanisms used at the federal labs. While some of the lectures will be an introduction to common technology transfer mechanisms, such as CRADAs and licenses, other lectures will focus on more specialized agreements that may be unique to a particular agency, such as NASA’s Space Act agreements.

It is our hope that the series will encourage a dialogue between the federal laboratories and other stakeholders in the area of technology innovation. We hope to reach small businesses, large businesses, academia, economic development organizations, and technology transfer professionals.

ABOUT THIS WEBINAR:

A Webinar on Stanford V. Roche from the Perspective of Federal Agencies
Thursday, July 28, 2011, 1:00 to 2:30 pm ET

This webinar will first set the stage for Stanford v. Roche by a quick introduction to Bayh-Dole. Once the stage is set, the facts of the case will be discussed. Finally, the effect of this case on future activities and collaborations with the Federal Labs will be explored.

COST: Free, but registration required by clicking on the link above.

PRESENTERS:

Henry Wixon
Chief Counsel
National Institute of Standards and Technology

John Raubitschek
Patent Attorney
U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Melanye Johnson
Senior Attorney
Office of the General Counsel
US Department of Health and Human Services
Public Health Division, NIH Branch

Moderated by:

Mojdeh Bahar
Chief, Cancer Branch
Office of Technology Transfer, NIH

HOW TO PARTICIPATE?: This series is online. You need a computer with web access for the visual/audio. Q&A is conducted by a chat box to the speakers. Once registered to the webinar series you will receive a separate email with the webinar url 24 hours before the start of the webinar.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN THE WEBINAR?: These webinars are open to anyone interested in how federal labs, universities and industry can better work together to foster innovation. This includes university staff, faculty and students, local and state economic development professionals, corporate business development directors, academic liaisons, corporate, academic and federal laboratory researchers, technology transfer professionals, and service providers (e.g. lawyers, consultants).

For more information about this webinar contact support@ncet2.org or visit http://center.ncet2.org

The A3S and the ISFLUP would like to invite you to the 5th Edition of the Third Sector Month (M3S 2011), as part of the dissemination of the results of the project “Social Entrepreneurship in Portugal: policies, organizations and education/training practices”.
 
With a round table format, the M3S 2011 will focus on the theme of legal and political challenges in the social economy. The aim is to promote discussion not only on the changes resulting from the new political structures and measures to support the sector’s development, but also on the changes expected as a result of the  framework of the program devised by the recently elected Constitutional Government.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. To register, please send your name, the name of your institution and your contact information to: geci@letras.up.pt

We are counting on you.

Address:
A3S – Associação para o Empreendedorismo Social e a Sustentabilidade do Terceiro Sector
Edifício P.inc
Praça Coronel Pacheco, nº 2, 4050-453 Porto
Telm. 91 662 77 33
associacao3s@gmail.com
www.a-3s.org/

The annual University Startups Conference will take place January 18-20, 2012 at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC.

The University Startups Conference is dedicated exclusively to creating and funding globally-competitive, venture-backable university startups. It bring together universities creating startups with VCs, angel investors, SBIR program managers and Fortune 500 technology scouts funding them. The conference also includes NSF, NIH, NIST, DOD, DOE, DHS and other US government agencies working on improving the innovation economy by increasing the quality and quantity of startups coming out of universities.

The conference is organized annually by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2.org). Government co-hosts are the National Science Foundation (Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnership) and National Institutes of Health (Office of Tech Transfer). VC sponsors are the National Venture Captial Association (NVCA) and the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF).

For more information, see: http://ncet2.org/UpcomingEvents/UnivStartupConf12/

The 3rd Annual Open Innovation Conference in Chicago from August 10-12 is rapidly approaching. The IC² Institute has negotiated a $200 discount on registration for those willing to attend (Promo Code: UT). This promises to be a great event for those looking to discover coming trends in innovation in industry.

More information and registration.

The NCET2 Faculty Entrepreneur Webinar Series presents:

“Two Perspectives on Company/University Interactions Towards Research Commercialization and Innovation”

Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 1:00pm to 2:30pm EDT (18h00 to 19h30 Portugal time)

The NCET2 Faculty Entrepreneur Webinar Series allows faculty entrepreneurs a venue to share research commercialization know-how with their peers. Each month 2 or 3 faculty entrepreneurs talk about their startup/SBIR experiences to an audience of science and technology (S&T) faculty and students.

More information
Registration

Presenters:

Terrence Boult, PhD
El Palomar Endowed Professor of Innovation and Security
University of Colorado in Colorado Springs

Gabriel Gruionu, PhD
Research Fellow, Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology
Department of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Boult will discuss a Win-Win-Win model for student and faculty involvement in Small Business Innovative Research. This talk will discuss our experiences in incorporating students, both undergraduate and graduate students, into the SBIR/STTR process. We briefly review UCCS’s status and programs to put this work in context — and any why almost any NCET2 university should be able to leverage our models. The talk will review the processes used to help prepare students and the processes used to manage interaction with different types of companies. We review 3 different models of company-student-SBIR interactions that have all been successful. We will then discuss some of the student/learning outcomes (Win #1) and the business outcomes (Win #2) and the impact on the other stakeholders (Win #3, university and the community and sponsors).

Dr. Gruionu will present/discuss his personal experience with academic research commercialization and medical product industry. He will begin by talking about his experience as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona participating in industry-sponsored research projects. Next, as a product specialist for the Medical Product Division of W. L. Gore and Associates, Inc., Dr. Gruionu managed the “fitness-for-use” of both R&D and commercialized products, a unique opportunity that Gore offers Ph.D. scientists. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Dr. Gruionu organized two full day workshops during the annual BMES meetings about the collaboration between academia, industry, and clinicians for medical innovation where key opinion leaders from all three communities talked about the strengths and weaknesses of research commercialization and best practices across the country. He will also share his experience with starting his own medical product consulting company and his recent involvement with SBIR proposals. Finally, Dr. Gruionu will present general conclusions about research commercialization, and opportunities for postdocs and young faculty to get involved in the process.

COST OF THE WEBINAR: Free, but registration is required.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE?: This series is online. You need a computer with web access for the visual/audio. Q&A is conducted by a chat box to the speakers. Once registered to the webinar series you will receive a separate email with the webinar url 24 hours before the start of the webinar.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN THE WEBINAR?: Entrepreneurial faculty, students, and postdocs; Technology Commercialization Officers and their staff; Chief operating or executive officers of university startup companies; university administrators seeking to enhance innovation and impact; and any one else interested in how faculty and universities participate in the innovation economy.

For more information about this webinar visit ncet2.org or contact support@ncet2.org.