Training for Innovators
Experience has shown that educating innovators about their role in technology transfer has a dramatic impact on a program’s potential for success. Put simply, an informed inventor is the best tech transfer partner you can have. Therefore, Fuentek offers interactive training programs specifically tailored to the innovator community.
Topics include:
- Why and how to file invention disclosures
- What is a patent and what is involved in obtaining one and maintaining it
- Their legal responsibilities
- The connections between innovation and commercialization
- Effective techniques for discussing technologies and R&D with potential partners
- How technology transfer works at their organization
- The what, why, and how of open innovation
Fuentek also can prepare Web pages/sites that help innovators more easily participate in technology transfer, including answers to frequently asked questions, process overviews, online submission of invention disclosures, downloadable forms, and other information.
Contact us to discuss how we can help your organization’s innovators participate more effectively in technology transfer.