NCET2 webinar series: President’s Initiative on University Commercialization

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, 2024
1:00 to 1:30 PM EST (19h00 to 19h30 Portugal time)
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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.