| (Thursday, January 12, 2006, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) Sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), Rowan University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, USASB Entrepreneurship Education Division, and USASBE Technology Entrepreneurship Division
The perceived need is to increase both the rate of technology commercialization and the funds flow to innovators, educational units, and faculty-supervised teams working in the field. The proposed I2V commercialization workshop model helps develop skills to take products and ideas to market. Faculty, students, and administrators in colleges and universities do not have the full skill set or the mindset to effectively commercialize ideas/products coming out of universities, from laboratory research, or from external firms seeking help.
The proposed solution is to offer a commercialization workshop developed with the successful NCIIA I2V program model that provides for faculty leadership and development to create opportunities for their individual university/consortium of universities to develop I2V workshops. Interdisciplinary, technology concept/product driven faculty/student/innovator teams will be provided information and handouts that help create new technology commercialization plans and new instructional models for commercialization support.
The Invention to Venture workshop offers program participants the benefits of an opportunity-focused, entrepreneurship-learning environment. The I2V model was developed with a commitment to sharing resources and information, pooling training experience, and promoting training opportunities to create an entrepreneurial environment conducive to commercialization. Successful implementation of the proposed I2V workshop model program will help in the education of the key players in the technology commercialization field.
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