Innovation Days: 18-20 June, 2009

You’re invited to join UTEN@Austin for workshops during the Innovation Days conference in Lisbon. Admission to the conference and workshop is free! Join us and learn about best practices and global perspectives in technology transfer and commercialization.

UTEN Researcher Workshop
Thursday, June 18, 10.30 to 13.30
Innovation Days Showroom Auditorium

UTEN Entrepreneur Workshop
Saturday, June 20, 10.00 to 13.00
Innovation Days Showroom Auditorium

Learn more about the Innovation Days conference.

You must register to attend the conference and UTEN workshops. All events are free.

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UTEN Researcher Workshop

Thursday, June 18, 10.30 to 13.30
Showroom Auditorium
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Presentations from the Researcher Workshop

Join us for a highly interactive workshop as we explore best practices and global perspectives on technology transfer. Learn how to best present your technology to business people; explore what researchers do right (or not) in the tech transfer process; and learn how best to interface with your technology transfer office.

10.30 Welcome and Networking

11.00 Introduction: Tech Transfer and Commercialization with UTEN

11.15 Pitch Camp: Presenting your Technology to Business People

Participants will create elevator pitches for the technologies.

12.00 Researcher’s Best (and Worst) Practices in Technology Transfer

Through dramatized interviews and interactive discussion, we’ll identify what researchers do right - or not - in the practice of tech transfer.

12.45 Working With Your Tech Transfer Office

A panel of technology transfer staff and researchers discuss what researchers should expect from tech transfer offices and how they can best interface with their local TTO.

UTEN Entrepreneur Workshop

Saturday, June 20, 10.00 to 13.00
Showroom Auditorium
Register for conference now

Presentations from the Entrepreneur Workshop

Join us for a highly interactive workshop as we explore business strategy, global focus, and market-based entrepreneurship.

10.00 Welcome and Networking

10.30 Introduction: Tech Transfer and Commercialization with UTEN

10.45 Globally Competitive Strategy and Practices for Startups

This session will explore how to identify and build globally competitive strategy into your startup through a presentation, a workshop, and audience presentations.

11.45 Technology and Market Assessment

What is real marketing? Is it brochures and web sites, or something more? Explore with us the discipline of market research and how to discover the global “voice of the market.” Create a one-page pitch for your technology / products, and begin during the workshop a global assessment of your technology and market potential.