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AUTM
 The largest, most influential biotech convention in the world is coming to San Francisco Monday through Thursday, June 6-9. Experience powerful business partnering, benefit from invaluable education sessions and network with 15,000-plus of biotech's best and brightest.
See how the everyday becomes extraordinary at BIO 2016. It's not too late to register! Stop by AUTM booth #7729!
Indianapolis Business Journal
The latest Hoosier inventions are emerging from the bustling orthopedic industry in Warsaw, from faculty laboratories at Indiana's flagship universities, and from healthcare firms across central Indiana, including Cook Medical Technologies. It's all adding up to one thing: Indiana is experiencing a patent renaissance. Indiana inventors secured 30 percent more patents — intellectual property rights granted to inventors by the federal government — in 2015 than they did four years earlier, according to data compiled by Carmel patent valuation company Pellegrino & Associates.
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University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut officials joined project engineers, union workers, legislators and others Tuesday to celebrate symbolic completion of the structural phase of UConn's new Innovation Partnership Building in Storrs, Connecticut. The $132 million Innovation Partnership Building (IPB) will allow for greater public-private research collaboration. The 115,000-square-foot facility is bringing together world-class academic researchers, business entrepreneurs and private industry scientists to develop innovative technologies in flexible electronics, materials science, additive manufacturing, cybersecurity, energy and other fields.
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Clean Technica
Perovskite solar cell technology is likely to be commercialized sometime between the years of 2019 and 2021 — owing to improving technology and emerging university + commercial partnerships — according to a new report from Lux Research. The report notes that, while problems remain with the technology, "new opportunities" for commercial firms to partner with universities and research centers are emerging.
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Disrupt Africa
G-J van Rooyen, chief executive officer of South African startup Custos Media Technologies, knows a thing or two about how valuable the support of a university can be to a newly-founded startup. Custos, which looks to combat digital piracy by embedding bitcoin bounties as watermarks within videos and movies, was not only founded by van Rooyen, an academic at Stellenbosch University, but was also incubated at the university's LaunchLab incubator and received its first funding round from Innovus Technology Transfer, the university's industry interaction and innovation company.
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AUTM
Join AUTM in Toronto for its second Startup Course of the summer!
The Startup Business Development Course will provide participants with the best available methods and insights for achieving success managing the university startup process from inception to exit from the university. The course is ideal if you are, or will be, working with startups as a licensing specialist or a business formation specialist. If you are looking for an opportunity to improve your knowledge base and build a repertoire of startup problem-solving techniques, don't miss this course.
The course will be followed by a Canadian Meeting to discuss issues of importance to Canadian technology transfer professionals.
June 26-28
MaRS Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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AUTM
The AUTM 2016 Central Region Meeting focuses on collaboration, technology and commercialization. Find great insights. Make valuable contacts. Exchange new ideas.
July 18-20
The Pfister Hotel
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Connect with your colleagues at the AUTM 2016 Eastern Region Meeting, where technology transfer colleagues share best practices and strategies for industry-academia partnerships.
Sept. 29-30
The Westin Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Join us for an opportunity to network, exchange ideas and gain valuable industry contacts at the AUTM 2016 Western Region Meeting. Designed to provide insights for experienced and new technology transfer professionals alike.
Nov. 2-4
Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort and Spa
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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AUTM
AUTM's Crop Productivity and Food Processing Technologies Partnering Forum coincides with Canada's National Biotech Week 2016. This is a unique opportunity to network with industry partners and take an in-depth look at the crop science and food processing technology sectors.
Sept. 28-29
Hosted by University of Saskatchewan
Radisson Hotel Saskatoon
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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The new AUTM Compliance Course is designed for all administrative professionals and others responsible for compliance related issues and government reporting within the technology transfer office.
The two-and-a-half-day course will provide an in-depth understanding of compliance reporting requirements. The critical issues of proper compliance and using iEdison will be discussed, along with how to properly report patent filings, co-owned inventions, utilization reporting, subgrants, waivers and much, much more.
Oct. 3-5
Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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AUTM TOOLS and Essentials, and the Small TTO Office course are must-have training for technology transfer professionals. Target just the topics, skills and education that you need.
- Understand the critical issues of licensing
- Improve your negotiating skills
- Learn successful office operations
- Build a technology transfer network
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Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
And save the dates for these additional courses, also being held at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore Inner Harbor:
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AUTM's Smart Power and Energy Storage Solutions Partnering Forum, hosted by Case Western Reserve University, will feature presentations by industry partners will focus on technological areas of interest and how to best work with their companies. Panel sessions will focus on technology transfer topics relevant to energy storage solutions and related industries.
Oct. 26-27
Tinkham Veale University Center
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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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!
June 8
Noon-1:30 p.m. ET
Operational Metrics for a Technology Transfer Office Performance
Focuses on the issues and challenges of defining and measuring suitable metrics in a TTO. The knowledge exchange model, identifying performance metrics to demonstrate engagement and external impacts will also be discussed.
Aug. 18
Noon-1:30 p.m. ET
European Patent Practice — The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Learn all the different "quirks" of European patent practice and how it fits into the global picture through a panel discussion between a senior member of a European Patent Office Examination Division and a partner in a leading UK patent firm.
Oct. 20
Noon-1:30 p.m. ET
Running Effective Internship Programs — Clear Expectations
Learn how to run an effective internship program, how to effectively communicate expectations to interns and what tasks in your office may be handled by interns to help make your work load lighter.
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