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Innovation Readiness and the Technology Transfer Office

Gregory P. Pogue, Ph.D.Rosemary French

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Workshop Topics1. Review and feedback from Innovation Readiness

homework2. Technology Transfer Office disclosure process 3. Changes in the technology descriptions4. IR and faculty outreach5. Developing your own disclosure process6. IR and commercialization outreach7. Conclusions

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Technology Transfer Office Major Processes

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TCAP Innovation Pipeline

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The Change …

• Each team:– Read the Initial Innovation Technology

Description– Read the final Innovation Readiness deliverable

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Discussion

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Using IR to Assist Research Trajectory

• Link research objectives to societal needs– Government priorities– Industry needs

• Outcomes can be used to:– Structure research grants– Identify industry sponsorship opportunities– Motivate student and post-doc dedication

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Faculty Outreach

• Using IR to develop relationships with researchers

• Using IR to identify new innovations• Using IR to harvest new invention pre-

disclosures• Using IR to improve the quality of invention

disclosures

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Technology Transfer Office Major Processes

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Outline Your Institution’s Disclosure Process

• Define steps (faculty to market outreach)• Outline inputs for initiation of each step• Detail outputs from each step• Describe how the proposed process is similar or

different from your current process

• Institution break-out session• Institution presentations

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Using IR for Commercial Outreach

• Converting IR deliverables into web-based outreach tools

• Converting IR deliverables to Powerpoint-based outreach tools for email and in-person presentations

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Conclusions• IR can provide an excellent tool to build

relationships with researchers• A disciplined disclosure process facilitates

commercialization• IR outcomes can be used to initiate a disclosure

process• IR outcomes can assist with commercial outreach

through web-based, email and in-person methodologies

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Contact

Gregory P. Pogue, Ph.D.IC2 InstituteThe University of Texas at Austin

gpogue@ic2.utexas.edu(512) 560-3717 (cell)(512) 475-8961 (office)Skype ID: pogo5708www.ic2.utexas.edu

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