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AUTM
Attend AUTM's Annual Meeting, the smartest investment you can make to advance your career and add value to your office — from building important business contacts to staying up-to-date on industry trends and cutting-edge education.
Advance registration deadline: FRIDAY, March 3
Attend professional development courses:
AUTM Marketing Course℠ puts you ahead of the game with tools and skills to get your technologies licensed.
AUTM Technology Valuation Course℠ teaches key concepts that affect value and risk, reviews valuation methodologies.
AUTM Negotiation Course℠ explores negotiation, essential tools and strategies.
Learn more about the courses and faculty.
IPWatchdog
Congressional pursuit of HR 9-type comprehensive patent reform seems to have slowed. Maybe inventors, investigators and investors can breathe easy for a while. Or not! Unless universities and others engaged in early stage commercialization can convince Congress now that Bayh-Dole-based commercialization is the bridge created by Congress to connect past and future congressional R&D funding to the public benefits of jobs, growth and medical progress contemplated by its annual R&D appropriation, trouble lies ahead.
R&D funding on one side of the commercialization bridge must reliably cross to its public benefit other side or Congress will invest its billions elsewhere. This bridge connects congressional investment with private sector investment and can fail on either side.
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UT News
A team of engineers led by 94-year-old John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery, has developed the first all-solid-state battery cells that could lead to safer, faster-charging, longer-lasting rechargeable batteries for handheld mobile devices, electric cars and stationary energy storage.
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Globe Newswire
About 250 people packed the Herman and Heddy Kurz Purdue Technology Center for the recent Purdue Technology Showcase that featured dozens of pioneering innovations. The technology ranged from medical devices including a hands-free crutch design and an advanced wheelchair that converts to a walker, to analytical tools including an application that can interpret gang graffiti for law enforcement officials.
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ICL Innovation
ICL Innovation, the corporate accelerator of ICL Group, responsible for securing external innovation for ICL, is offering full funding for continued development or field testing of potential plant stimulants. The company is seeking plant stimulants that can be administrated by foliar application or through irrigation systems and provide growth promotion. Bio-stimulants or signal molecules which increase yield and biomass of plants or improve nutrient use efficiency are of interest.
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The Marietta Daily Journal
Cobb County, Georgia, leaders want to give local business a boost, and they have opened a new space to help make that happen. IgniteHQ will offer entrepreneurs space to work and share ideas, as well as access to mentoring, advice and training opportunities. The property is leased by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia on behalf of Kennesaw State University. The overall management and maintenance of the property is the collaborative effort of KSU, Cobb County and IgniteHQ. Officials from all three organizations celebrated the center's opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
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The American Bar Association’s Consumer Guide to Obtaining a Patent is quickly becoming the “go to” resource for technology managers. Written in layman’s terms for inventors, researchers and engineers, it is an inexpensive training tool that will help your team provide better disclosures that lead to better patents. Buy on Amazon or download a free preview.
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AUTM
Unable to attend the AUTM 2017 Annual Meeting in person but still want to benefit from the information shared at the meeting? Consider participating in web conferencing, which allows you to participate in the following eight sessions LIVE from your desktop.
For more information on web conferencing or to register, click here.
AUTM
Save the dates for AUTM's 2017 Central Region Meeting, where attendees will enjoy excellent content, engaging speakers, networking and friendly conversation. The meeting will focus on collaboration, technology commercialization and much more.
Sponsorship application
July 10-12
Swissotel Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
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Save the dates for AUTM's 2017 Eastern Region Meeting, where attendees will gather to discuss best practices and strategies for industry-academia partnerships that culminate in successful product commercialization through company formation or licensing and other agreements.
Sponsorship application
Oct. 2-3
Boston, MA, USA
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AUTM
Is your university uniquely positioned to host a Partnering Forum on a specific sector? We are interested in receiving proposals on the following areas:
- Oncology or subset
- Biomed engineering
- Digital health
- Clinical trials
- Vaccines
- Water technologies
- Probiotics/microbiome
- Big data
- Financial technologies
- Drug delivery
- Immunotherapies
If your university has significant interest in any of these topics, we want to hear from you! Complete the Request for Proposal, and let us know your idea.
AUTM
Save the date for the AUTM 2018 Annual Meeting, Feb. 18-21, 2018, at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. To submit topics for the 2018 meeting, click here.
AUTM
AUTM webinars deliver exceptional content from the most respected leaders in technology transfer. Each webinar provides insights and best practices at an attractive price from the convenience of your desk!
Thursday, March 2
Noon-1:30 p.m. ET
Hosting an AUTM Partnering Forum
This FREE webinar will provide information on how to host an event and what is required of the host. It will provide insight into factors to consider when putting together a partnering forum proposal to help guide you to a successful event. Is your university uniquely positioned to host a partnering forum on a specific sector? Join us to find out.
AUTM
Every three minutes, a person in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer. In 2016, more than 170,000 people were diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma. Now researchers from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have developed an alternative treatment to harness the power of patients' immune systems that could lead to better therapies for some cancers, including leukemia and lymphoma.
Read more in "Harnessing Patient’s Immune System to Fight Cancer."
For more information about the Better World Project, visit betterworldproject.org.
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