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Build and Manage a Successful Accelerator Fund for Your University |
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When it comes to university-based innovations, traditional investors have become nearly obsessively risk-averse, and getting the backing you need to commercialize your promising technologies and fund your start-ups has become a tougher challenge. Creating an in-house accelerator fund has become a key success strategy for a growing number of TTOs, freeing up resources that help ensure your high-potential university technologies get a fair shake — and the development dollars they need — to reach commercial viability. But, establishing a strategic financing structure within your university technology transfer system or research foundation can be a risky and daunting task, and requires careful planning as well as expert execution. That’s why our Distance Learning Division has scheduled this dynamic and practical webinar featuring two of the world’s leading TTO financing executives: Build and Manage a Successful Accelerator Fund for Your University, scheduled for Wednesday, March 7. Please join Richard S. Schifreen, PhD, who leads the Accelerator Program at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Jonathan Gortat, coordinator of the Emerging Innovations Fund at Purdue Research Foundation, for an eye-opening session that will reveal best practices and offer “how-to” strategies for building and managing a successful accelerator fund. To register and for complete details, CLICK HERE.
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Posted February 1st, 2012 under Audioconferences, Tech Transfer. [ Comments: none ]
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Webinar tomorrow — Life Under AIA: Anticipating and Surviving Post Grant Challenges |
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One of the most controversial and worrisome provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act is its introduction of a new post-grant review process. The new process, based on experience with a similar review process in Europe, is expected to result in an explosion in the number of challenges, particularly from large companies attempting to delay or derail start-ups and innovations from smaller organizations, including universities. The additional risks may affect licensing efforts, as well as the willingness of investors to commit to patented technologies until the post-grant review period has expired, or any PGRs initiated are settled.
Tech transfer professionals and IP practitioners need to quickly get up to speed on the details of this potentially damaging provision. That’s why our Distance Learning Division has teamed up with attorney experts Michael T. Siekman and Ed Walsh from the Wolf Greenfield IP Law Firm to present this hour-long educational webinar: Life Under AIA: Anticipating and Surviving Post Grant Challenges. Join us this Thursday, January 26, 2012, when Mr. Siekman and Mr. Walsh will provide a detailed review of the post-grant review provisions, their likely impact, remaining uncertainties as the USPTO deals with implementation, and strategies to begin planning now for both patent drafting and responding effectively to post-grant actions. For complete program details and to register, CLICK HERE.
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Posted January 25th, 2012 under Audioconferences, Tech Transfer. [ Comments: none ]
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Licensee Red Flags: 12 Critical Signs that Should Trigger an Audit |
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According to license compliance experts, there are a host of “red flags” that clearly indicate when a licensee audit is in order. However, many of these signals are either unknown or get swept under the rug by too-busy staff, allowing a non-compliant licensee to fly under the radar. This is where your university is at its highest risk for losing thousands — potentially millions — in royalty payments.
By readily identifying licensee red flags, you can avoid that risk and recoup lost royalties, as well as optimize the efficiency of your audit process by focusing your attention on those licensees with the greatest chance of finding errors, omissions, and underpayments. That’s why Technology Transfer Tactics’ Distance Learning Division has teamed up with a nationally respected expert to host a 60-minute webinar, coming February 15th, that will be jam-packed with proven tactics and strategies: Licensee Red Flags: 12 Critical Signs that Should Trigger an Audit. Attendees will hear royalty audit expert Daniel Burns, president of DBA, share his top 12 signs that should trigger the audit process — as well as the rationale behind them and the critical audit procedures needed to ferret out mistakes and missing dollars. For complete details and to register, CLICK HERE.
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Posted January 11th, 2012 under Audioconferences, Tech Transfer. [ Comments: none ]
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Life Under AIA: Anticipating and Surviving Post Grant Challenges |
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One of the most controversial and worrisome provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act is its introduction of a new post-grant review process. The new process, based on experience with a similar review process in Europe, is expected to result in an explosion in the number of challenges, particularly from large companies attempting to delay or derail start-ups and innovations from smaller organizations, including universities. The additional risks may affect licensing efforts, as well as the willingness of investors to commit to patented technologies until the post-grant review period has expired, or any PGRs initiated are settled.
While the changes won’t take effect until September 2012, tech transfer professionals and IP practitioners need to quickly get up to speed on the details of this potentially damaging provision. That’s why our Distance Learning Division has teamed up with attorney experts Michael T. Siekman and Ed Walsh from the Wolf Greenfield IP Law Firm to present this hour-long educational webinar: Life Under AIA: Anticipating and Surviving Post Grant Challenges. Join us Thursday, January 26, 2012, when Mr. Siekman and Mr. Walsh will provide a detailed review of the post-grant review provisions, their likely impact, remaining uncertainties as the USPTO deals with implementation, and strategies to begin planning now for both patent drafting and responding effectively to post-grant actions. For complete program details and to register, CLICK HERE.
ALSO, COMING IN JANUARY
Posted December 21st, 2011 under Audioconferences, Tech Transfer. [ Comments: none ]
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Webinar: Transform Your TTO into an Economic Development Engine |
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As global economic struggles persist, research universities worldwide are being called upon like never before to promote innovation, entrepreneurship and the commercialization of research — and to demonstrate the results of their efforts in terms of economic impact. Jobs, payrolls, and tax receipts have become the new metrics for tech transfer organizations, as local and national government leaders push for growth through research discoveries and innovation-driven start-up activity. For many universities, this intensified pressure to prove the economic merits of research efforts has brought with it much closer integration and partnership with local and regional economic development agencies, as well as new initiatives that put more focus — and more pressure — on the ways TTOs and their universities contribute to their communities’ fiscal well being.
Two universities that stand out as proactive examples of how to meet the economic development challenge. Rutgers University and the University of Maryland have each created a dedicated economic development office, and are actively employing creative strategies to stimulate economic impact and measure their results. Rutgers’ Dr. Michael J. Pazzani and UMD’s Brian Darmody will share their methods, challenges, successes, and measurement strategies in a webinar scheduled for January 18th: Transform Your TTO Into an Economic Development Engine. For complete program details and to register, CLICK HERE.
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Posted December 14th, 2011 under Audioconferences, Tech Transfer. [ Comments: none ]
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Tech Transfer University’s 2012 schedule of webinars released |
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2Market Information Inc., publisher of IP Marketing eNews, has just released its 2012 schedule of professional development webinars for tech transfer and IP professionals. Featuring 30 timely programs targeting an array of challenges and strategies for successful research commercialization, the programs offer a convenient and affordable way to train your entire staff for throughout the year for less than the cost of one in-person conference, without the travel. Each program offers both CLP and CLE credits.
The company’s Tech Transfer University subscription program allows you to customize your training to match your organization’s specific needs while saving significantly on the cost of each program. You choose the number of programs and the specific sessions you wish to access, and the more you choose, the more you save! Also available is an annual Total Access Pass providing access to any or all of 100+ live and recorded programs. It’s a great way to stretch your professional development budget, eliminate travel costs while enhancing staff expertise, and conveniently get critical guidance on the key issues you must address to boost your performance. For complete details and to view the 2012 schedule of events, CLICK HERE.
Posted December 14th, 2011 under Audioconferences, Tech Transfer. [ Comments: none ]
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Great lineup of tech transfer webinars coming in December |
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Our Distance Learning Division has scheduled three outstanding webinars in the coming month for tech transfer and IP professionals. Click on any of the titles below for complete program and faculty details, or to register:
Posted November 30th, 2011 under Audioconferences, Tech Transfer. [ Comments: none ]
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“Boot Camp” video series offers detailed best practices for university start-ups |
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Start-Up Boot Camp for University TTO Professionals and Inventors, featuring six sessions filled with nine hours of best practices from 11 world-class start-up experts, is now available as a complete DVD library. Among the featured faculty are the top execs from the University of Utah TTO, which ranks #1 in academic start-up formation. From early decision-making to exit strategies and each milestone along the way, the series is carefully crafted to provide the detailed guidance and advice needed to take academic start-ups beyond survival and ultimately to a liquidity event. The DVD library makes it easy and convenient to share with your entire staff and faculty, and E-News readers receive a 50% discount off the regular price. CLICK HERE for complete agenda and faculty details, and to order.
Posted November 23rd, 2011 under Audioconferences, Tech Transfer. [ Comments: none ]
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How Your University’s Innovations Can Become a Fixture in Big Pharma’s Pipeline |
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Faced with a steep patent cliff and a shrinking pipeline of new drugs to replace revenues associated with former blockbusters, the pharma industry has updated and enhanced its drug development models with an emphasis on partnerships, and universities are high on their list. The result for a growing number of TTOs has been the initiation of lucrative new partnership models that take advantage of respective strengths and overcome historical barriers. These new partnerships, if successfully executed, will create massive returns for years to come in terms of both more rapid translation of research and a strong stream of revenues (and jobs) linked to a long-term industry-university drug development engine. To help ensure your university and TTO benefit from this historical shift and the opportunities that come with it, our Distance Learning Division has scheduled a critical webinar featuring Alex Fayne, Chief Operating Officer of Pfizer’s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation, and Nurjana Bachman, PhD, Business Development Manager for the Technology & Innovation Development Office at Children’s Hospital Boston. Join them on December 15 for How Your University’s Innovations Can Become a Fixture in Big Pharma’s Pipeline. This session will discuss the changing dynamics between pharma and academia, cite examples of new partnering models, and offer unique insights into Pfizer’s partnership efforts taking place within its Centers for Therapeutic Innovation. Lean how to position your TTO as a partner of choice for pharma collaborations! For complete details and to register, CLICK HERE.
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Posted November 16th, 2011 under Audioconferences, Tech Transfer. [ Comments: none ]
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IP-Included Label Licensing: A Win-Win Model for Maximizing Use of University Technologies |
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A “label-license” or “IP-included model” enables universities to realize the value of their intellectual property, gives licensees additional means to market the technology, and encourages end-users to incorporate the technology. Case in point: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sigma-Aldrich® have recently entered into an “IP-included” license agreement which enables Sigma-Aldrich to expand the range of a powerful class of boronic acid surrogates offered to the global chemistry community. The university’s senior technology manager, Lisa Dhar, was instrumental in inking the deal, and on December 7 she will share a wealth of best practice strategies in this 60-minute, interactive webinar: IP-Included Label Licensing: A Win-Win Model for Maximizing Use of University Technologies. For complete program details and to register, CLICK HERE.
PLUS: DON’T MISS THESE OUTSTANDING UPCOMING PROGRAMS:
Posted November 9th, 2011 under Audioconferences, Tech Transfer. [ Comments: none ]
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Export control compliance briefing: The Prosecution of Professor Roth and Its Aftermath |
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No export enforcement case in recent memory has sparked more attention and controversy than the government’s prosecution of former University of Tennessee Professor J. Reece Roth. On Oct. 3, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Roth’s petition for a writ of certiorari to review his conviction of violating the Arms Export Control Act (AECA). The high court’s decision ends his effort to avoid a four-year jail term. Roth’s criminal prosecution, conviction and appeals have raised serious questions about the application of U.S. export controls to university research, deemed exports, government contracts, the meaning of knowledge and willfulness, the hiring of foreign students and employees, and what constitutes public information. The aftermath of this case will color U.S. export enforcement for years to come — and it’s imperative that you get all the details on the case and its implications for your organization and faculty.
The Prosecution of Professor Roth and Its Aftermath, an audiobriefing scheduled for November 15, will address these issues and provide much-needed guidance. Our expert panel includes the lead DOJ prosecutor in the case, an export control expert and former assistant attorney general, and a leading university compliance officer. They will provide detailed guidance to ensure your export compliance program prevents the mistakes that landed Dr. Roth in court and now prison. For complete program and faculty details, or to register, CLICK HERE.
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Posted October 26th, 2011 under Audioconferences, Tech Transfer. [ Comments: none ]
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Exit Planning for University Start-Ups |
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It may sound counter-intuitive, but one of the most important tasks for newly formed start-ups is developing your exit plan. Planning ahead for your exit is key to realizing the company’s long-term goals, providing a disciplined structure and timeline for reaching certain milestones and keeping your start-up on the growth trajectory required to attract future funding and acquisition interest. Whether you hope to go public, get acquired, or sell to investors, conducting an exit planning process creates an essential road map. However, determining the right path and creating a specific plan must be informed by many market factors and legal considerations, and it can’t be done effectively without careful analysis and a clear, realistic vision. Founders and CEOs often lean toward overly optimistic assessments, which can result later in major disappointments, a sense of failure, and turned off investors. That’s why our Distance Learning Division has recruited two outstanding presenters to guide you through the exit planning process — and help you plot your course to the best possible “liquidation event.” Join Gerard Eldering, founder and president of InnovateTech Ventures, and Ed Nortrup, Partner at GTC Law Group, on November 15th for Exit Planning for University Start-Ups, a 90-minute, interactive webinar filled with specific take-aways and detailed guidance. For complete program details and to register, CLICK HERE.
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Posted October 19th, 2011 under Audioconferences, Tech Transfer. [ Comments: none ]
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