Leaders Roundtable #2: the Effective Technology Transfer Office, April 2011

Leaders Roundtable #2:
Benchmarking Best Practices on Running an Effective Technology Transfer Office
14 April 2024
UPIN, Porto
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Invited Speaker: Brett Cornwell, Director of Commercialization Services for the Office of Technology Commercialization at the Texas A&M University System

Program

9.00 – Opening
Emídio Gomes, Universidade do Porto
José Mendonça, UTEN / INESC Porto

9.15 – Making technology transfer commercialization part of the mission of the university
a. What does this mean for how we negotiate deals and set goals
b. What does this mean for metrics and how we show impact to the university
Discussants: TTOs

10:45 – Coffee Break

11:00 – Encouraging entrepreneurship in the university
a. Make the TTO the place inventors want to work with instead of have to work with
b. Training future entrepreneurs. What does this mean for how we negotiate deals and set goals

12h30 - Wrap-up, Heath Naquin, UTEN / UT Austin

13h00 - Lunch

14h30 - Start-up companies as a tool for commercialization
a. How to fund the initial capital
b. What are the things to look for in a start-up
Discussants: TTOs

17h30 - Wrap-up, Heath Naquin, UTEN /UT Austin