A Step-by-Step Process for Technology Screenings: Technology Triage for TTO Professionals and Interns
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University and Government Focus—Addressing Specific Situations
Although their approaches to IP management processes and other best practices are the same, tech transfer offices at academic and government institutions—both in the U.S. and worldwide—have unique goals and obligations. Fuentek provides these insights to help university and government TTOs excel in the areas that are specific to them. Note: Items marked with a 
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Interns can be a valuable asset for a TTO, but success requires proper structuring and a significant investment in training and mentoring of interns. Fuentek provides these insights to help you structure an effective internship program. Note: An internship program should not be undertaken as a cost-cutting maneuver. See Fuentek's other insights on keeping costs down.
Key Insights
- How to Structure an Effective Internship Program
Interns can be a great help if you structure the internship program right.
- TTO Intern Success Is a Two-Way Street
It’s tempting to think of interns as cheap/free labor. But you must invest in them before they can provide a valuable return to the TTO.
- Considering the “Why?” of Interns and Technology Screenings
Using interns for screenings allows tech managers to spend their time focusing on the real end-game: getting deals.
- Stories From the Field: Lessons Learned in Training Interns
Even the best interns will flounder if improperly trained.
- Stories From the Field: Insights for Intern Training and Mentoring
Provide nuanced guidance over time.
- Developing an Effective Internship Program for Your University’s Technology Transfer Office
Insights into some of the best practices learned at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC), which is described in an accompanying case study.
Other Insights
- Getting Faculty on Your Side through Systematic Screening and Interns: Stories from the Field
How to turn around a faculty that’s in revolt against the TTO.
- Reaping Long-Term Rewards from Strategic IP Portfolio Screening: Stories from the Field
How an efficient and effective IP portfolio screening helped a university do more than just prioritize its IP for future technology transfer and marketing efforts.
- Tapping Young Talent During Lean Times: A Great Idea, but Proceed with Caution
With the right training program, students can be a huge help to TTOs both when times are tight and when budgets are flush.
- Need Tech Transfer Interns Next Summer? Now Is the Time to Get Started
Think fall is too early to think about summer interns? Let’s back it out.
- Choosing Your Path Toward a Career in Tech Transfer
First-hand insights on how graduate students and postdocs can break into careers in tech transfer.
- Commercializing Federally Funded Research: Paper Lays Out Roadmap
A new paper answers the question: How do TTOs find and commercialize the high-potential technologies efficiently (i.e., with their available resources and in a reasonable amount of time)?
- Spring Is Turning Up Interns!
What to look for in intern candidates.
Key Insights
- Questions Raised by “Free Agency” Tech Transfer Provisions in Startup Act
Key questions to be answered before the “free agency” provisions in the Moran–Warner Startup Act can be realistically implemented.
- A White House Meeting Revives Tech Transfer Recommendations
How a proactive, phased approach to commercialization would quickly, cost-efficiently, and effectively achieve the Obama Administration’s goals.
- Talking Tech Transfer with the President’s Ear: Yesterday’s Jobs Council Roundtable
Laura Schoppe tells the Jobs Council that government and university innovations can fuel economic development, but it doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
- How College Rivalry Disrupts Entrepreneurship
Cross-institution collaboration is not the norm in the Triangle. But it should be!
- Enhancing Economic Development through Technology Transfer of Federal- and State-Funded R&D Offers specific ways that government/university TTOs and economic development agencies can contribute to a mutually beneficial partnership.
- Commercializing Federally Funded Research: Paper Lays Out Roadmap
A new paper answers the question: How do TTOs find and commercialize the high-potential technologies efficiently (i.e., with their available resources and in a reasonable amount of time)?
Specific Tactics
- License Programs Targeted at Startups: We Can (and Must) Do Better
Well-intentioned programs are a step in the right direction, but many suffer from a few shortcomings.
- Conversations with DoD & the White House on Federal Tech Transfer Initiatives
Fuentek recommendations for increasing the likelihood and efficiency of getting research results to market.
- Ready-to-Sign Licensing Agreements: Does One Size Fit All?
Standard agreements are useful but are best used judiciously and in certain specific situations.
- Applying the AMMO to Tech Transfer Events: Stories from the Field
Specific details of how Fuentek helped a client accomplish a successful tech transfer outreach event designed to promote economic development.
Other Insights
- Redefining Metrics: AUTM Eastern Region Attendees Discuss the Start-Up Dichotomy
The disconnect between having start-ups and revenue as primary metrics. Consider our white paper, “How’d We Do?: Establishing Useful Technology Transfer Metrics.”
- Why University TTOs Are Getting a Bad Rap—and Why That’s Just Not Right
There is a systemic problem and piling the blame on TTOs is not fair. But it’s not that university TTOs are clueless; it’s that the TTOs are under-resourced.
- Fostering Collaboration between Tech Transfer and Economic Development Organizations
A preview of a panel on the mutually compatible interests between regional ED agencies and TTOs at university and government labs. Consider our white paper, “Enhancing Economic Development through Technology Transfer of Federal- and State-Funded R&D.”
- Upcoming Session Discusses How To Leverage Government Resources for University Start-ups
Laura Schoppe discusses how SBIR/STTR funding can help start-up companies move concepts forward to prototyping.
- Preliminary Poll Results Tie in with Economic Development and Collaboration Panels at AUTM Eastern Region Meeting
Economic development is not always linked to start-ups.
- Raleigh Innovation Summit Sparks Lots of Ideas
Ideas for creating an innovation center in Raleigh, branding Raleigh as a city of innovation, creating partnerships, and bringing more money to the region.
In addition to the best practices for running a TTO, the way a university or government tech transfer office is structured can have an impact on efficiencies and effectiveness. Fuentek provides these insights to help academic and government TTOs focus on the big picture.
Key Insights
- Prerequisites and First Steps When Creating a Tech Transfer Office
The blueprint for implementing Symbiotic Innovation.
- How’d We Do?: Establishing Useful Technology Transfer Metrics This white paper provides research-based recommendations for measuring performance and success of tech transfer programs in government, academic, and corporate institutions.
- A White House Meeting Revives Tech Transfer Recommendations
How a proactive, phased approach to commercialization would quickly, cost-efficiently, and effectively achieve the Obama Administration’s goals.
- How a Centralized Technology Transfer Office Helps Build Stronger Universities
Intra-campus centralization as well as cross-campus coordination and the consolidation of certain activities make the tech transfer process more streamlined and efficient.
- Fostering Collaboration between Tech Transfer and Economic Development Organizations
A preview of a panel on the mutually compatible interests between regional ED agencies and TTOs at university and government labs. Consider our white paper, “Enhancing Economic Development through Technology Transfer of Federal- and State-Funded R&D.”
- Commercializing Federally Funded Research: Paper Lays Out Roadmap
A new paper answers the question: How do TTOs find and commercialize the high-potential technologies efficiently (i.e., with their available resources and in a reasonable amount of time)?
Other Insights
- Conversations with DoD & the White House on Federal Tech Transfer Initiatives
Fuentek recommendations for increasing the likelihood and efficiency of getting research results to market.
- Questions Raised by “Free Agency” Tech Transfer Provisions in Startup Act
Key questions to be answered before the “free agency” provisions in the Moran–Warner Startup Act can be realistically implemented.
- Getting Faculty on Your Side through Systematic Screening and Interns: Stories from the Field
How to turn around a faculty that’s in revolt against the TTO.
- How College Rivalry Disrupts Entrepreneurship
Cross-institution collaboration is not the norm in the Triangle. But it should be!
- Why University TTOs Are Getting a Bad Rap—and Why That’s Just Not Right
There is a systemic problem and piling the blame on TTOs is not fair. But it’s not that university TTOs are clueless; it’s that the TTOs are under-resourced.
- Preliminary Poll Results Tie in with Economic Development and Collaboration Panels at AUTM Eastern Region Meeting
Economic development is not always linked to start-ups.
