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The Essentials
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This is a repeat of our wildly successful course, which had 2600 registrations when we offered it in January. This online webinar course is recommended for researchers in research institutions (e.g., grad students, post-docs, professional staff and faculty) and researchers in commercial companies (e.g., startups, SBIRs, research-based small businesses and Global 1000). It allows attendees to make an informed decision as to how to better plan their commercialization efforts, be it through employment, licensing, consulting, joint venturing or startup creation. Please forward this announcement to all researchers interested in learning how to commercialize their research, especially grad students and post-docs. Description: This unique course will deal with successfully commercializing any type of research activity, whether focused on engineering, physical sciences or life-sciences. The course will discuss the practical business and legal issues that researchers need to understand to commercialize their research. We will deal with the different ways to commercialize research, ranging from the traditional (i.e., employment and licensing) to the more entrepreneurial (i.e., consulting, joint venturing/strategic alliance and startup company). We will show how these commercialization methods overlap and how they differ. We will deal with fundamental topics like intellectual property, licensing agreements, employment agreements and consulting agreements, which researchers must understand regardless of whether they intend to be researchers at a university lab or the founder of the next great public company. We will then turn to the advance topics of creating and funding companies. The main difference between the fundamental and advance topics is that the fundamental are basically personal topics that every researcher needs to know in their commercialization efforts. The advance topics deal with commercializing as a group, with the resulting complexities of understanding the relationships and expectations of the other team members in the company, be they other employees, founders, executives, board members, shareholders, investors or partners.
Each lecture is a 90-minute webinar. There will be expert guest speakers for each session.
Co-Organizers:
Steve Ferguson
Deputy Director, Licensing & Entrepreneurship
Office of Technology Transfer
National Institutes of Health
Ali Andalibi
Program Director
National Cancer Institute
SBIR Development Center
National Institutes of Health
Juan E. Figueroa
Program Director SBIR
Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnership
National Science Foundation
Clara Asmail
Technologies Liaison
SBIR Program Manager
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Tony Stanco
Executive Director
National Council Of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer Partnering Universities and Institutions Boston University
Bucknell University SBDC
City University of New York
Johns Hopkins University
Rutgers University
University of Maryland
University of Texas
UNeMed/University of Nebraska Medical Center Cost: This 11-lecture course is free, but registration is required.
Agenda: Lecture 1: Commercialization Methods: Employment, Licensing, Consulting, Joint Venturing and Startup
June 18, 1-2:30pm EST
Lecture 2: The Fundamental Essentials: Patents
June 25, 1-2:30pm EST
Lecture 3: The Fundamental Essentials: Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets
July 9, 1-2:30pm EST
Lecture 4: The Fundamental Essentials: Employment Agreements
July 16, 1-2:30pm EST
Lecture 5: The Fundamental Essentials: Tech Transfer and Licensing Agreements
July 23, 1-2:30pm EST
Lecture 6: The Fundamental Essentials: Consulting Agreements
July 30, 1-2:30pm EST
Lecture 7: The Advanced Essentials: Business Entities
August 6, 1-2:30pm EST
Lecture 8: The Advanced Essentials: Shareholder Agreements; Directors and Executives; Term Sheets; Private Placement Memoranda; Stock Purchase Agreements
August 13, 1-2:30pm EST
Lecture 9: The Advanced Essentials: SBIRs/STTRs
August 20, 1-2:30pm EST
Lecture 10: The Advanced Essentials: Corporate Strategic Alliances and Joint Venturing
August 27, 1-2:30pm EST
Lecture 11: The Advanced Essentials: Angel Investors and Venture Capital
September 3, 1-2:30pm EST
Potential Make-up Classes
September 10 and 17, 1-2:30pm EST
Webinar Technical Requirements To participate on the webinars you need an internet access. The visuals are seen on your computer and the audio can be heard over the computer OR over a phone line. |
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