INTRODUCTION Technology Transfer and Commercialization with UTEN@Austin Cliff Zintgraff Program Manager, UTEN@Austin

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INTRODUCTIONTechnology Transfer and
Commercialization with UTEN_at_AustinCliff
ZintgraffProgram Manager, UTEN_at_Austin
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About UTEN_at_Austin
The mission of UTEN_at_Austin is to help build a
globally competitive and sustainable science and
technology commercialization infrastructure in
Portugal. UTEN is funded by Fundação para a
Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the
Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and
Higher Education.
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UT Austin Portugal CoLab
UTEN_at_Austin is one of four programs in the
International Collaboratory for Emerging
Technologies, or CoLab. UTEN works toward
sustainable technology transfer in the program
areas, and in other disciplines.
Digital Media
Advanced Computing
Math
Other Areas
UTEN
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UTEN Executive Board

• INESC Porto José Mendonça, Chair
• TecMinho Manuel Mota, Jamie Ferreira, Marta
  Catarino
• UPIN, University of Porto Jorge Gonçalves, Maria
  Oliveira
• IPN Teresa Mendes
• IST Rui Baptista, Maria José Francisco

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Organizations

• University of Algarve
• IST
• Taguspark
• University of Lisbon / IMM
• New University of Lisbon
• INPI
• University of Evora
• IPN / University of Coimbra
• University of Aveiro
• University of Porto / UPIN
• University of Porto / UPTEC
• University of Porto / FEUP
• TecMaia
• University of Minho / TecMinho
• University of Tres-os-Montes at Alto Douro

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Technologies / Companies (sampling)

• Bioalvo
• Fluidinova
• WeAdapt
• PETSYS
• AuditMark
• Critical RetMarker
• BlueWorks
• iSurgical 3D
• And more at
• http//www.techportugal.com/index2.php

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What Is Sustainable Tech Transfer?

• Productive researchers
• Who know how to work with TT staff industry
• Professional University TT staff
• Office strategy
• Tech assessment
• Market analysis
• Licensing
• Supportive administration
• Entrepreneurs
• Local, national and global networks
• Focused on the market

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UTEN Activities
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UTEN Values

• Our Style
• Global market orientation
• Grassroots development
• Live cases
• Change agents / bias for action

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Education

• 10-point curriculum for TT staff
• Integrated with live cases
• Strategy -gt tactics -gt execution

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Training

• National workshops
• Local workshops
• One-on-one sessions

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Assessment

• Portfolio Assessment
• Global Market Assessment
• Brutal focus on market perceptions.

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Internships

• U.S. based
• Strategic goals for TTOs
• Embedded in U.S. organization
• Portfolio review / tech development

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Today -- Researcher Workshop

• 1100 Introduction
• 1115 Pitch Camp
• 1200 Best (and Worst) Researcher Practices
• 1245 Wrap-up Panel
• 1330 Close

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Entrepreneur Workshop

1. Introduction
2. Global Market Strategy
3. Global Market Assessment

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Guidelines for today

1. Pick a technology.
2. We wont stop, but you can take a break when the
   time is right.

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Researcher Workshop -- The UTEN Way

• Interactive
• Engaging (we hope)
• Live-case based
• Everyone involved and if youre not

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INTRODUCTIONTechnology Transfer and
Commercialization with UTEN_at_AustinCliff
ZintgraffProgram Manager, UTEN_at_Austin
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• PITCH CAMP
• Heath Naquin, UTEN_at_Austin
• Tom Gardner, UTEN_at_Austin

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• Reseachers Best (and Worst) Practices in
  Technology Transfer

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• STARRING
• Heath Naquin
• as himself
• Cliff Zintgraff
• as Dr. Jones
• Tom Gardner
• as Discussion Leader

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About The Mock Interviews

• Two inventor interviews
• Just like in our RapidScreen assessment
• That reflect real interviews weve done
• That kindly highlight some issues about how
  researchers could/should deal with
  commercialization professionals

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Disclaimer

• Any similarity to real persons or projects is
  totally on purpose.

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INTERVIEW 1

• Rapid Response Contextual Phrase Matching with
  Enhancements from Frequency Domain Searches

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INTERVIEW 1

• DISCUSSION

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INTERVIEW 2

• EduPath Solving Our Alignment Problems in
  Education

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INTERVIEW 2

• DISCUSSION

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• Panel Working With Your Tech Transfer Office
• Marta Catarino
• TecMinho
• Dina Chaves
• Pedro Vilarinho
• New University of Lisbon

Nuno Silva Miguel Castanho University of Lisbon /
IMM Eli Mercer UTEN_at_Austin
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• Name one behavior we discussed this morning
  good or bad that youve seen personally.  Tell
  us about it!  Tell us the impact of the behavior
  on the project you were working on.

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• What is the most important advice you can give
  researchers about working with your office?

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UTEN Researcher Workshop is underway! Join us in
the Auditorium, right back corner of showroom.