Date: May 8

Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT

Description

Has your research produced a new idea or advancement in the field? Not sure what to do now?

Intro to Research Commercialization interactive session will introduce you to various resources across the UMN campus, including the work of MIN-Corps and Tech Comm.

They will briefly introduce the Lean Launchpad methodology, developed at Stanford University to translate university innovations into successful licensed products and business ventures. We will also discuss the various tools and resources across campus to help innovators.

They will give an overview of commercialization resources, including:

• MIN-Corps, the University of Minnesota site of the NSF-supported National Innovation Corps (I-Corps)
• I-Corps Great Lakes Region Hub
• NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps)
• Technology Commercialization  office at the University of Minnesota
• Minnesota SBIR/STTR Accelerator
• Launch Minnesota

Competencies

This seminar is appropriate for University of Minnesota masters degree and PHD students, post-docs, research staff and faculty.

About MIN-Corps

With support from the National Science Foundation, MIN-Corps is a joint initiative of the College of Science and Engineering, the Office for Technology Commercialization, and the Carlson School of Management‘s Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship.