Free Webinar Series on Research Commericialization

This highly successful online webinar course had 2,600 attendees the last time we did it in January. It 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.

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 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

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

Cost:

This 11-lecture course is free, but registration is required.

To register, go to http://researchercourse.ncet2backoffice.org/.

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

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