If you read yesterday’s blog entry, you know we have a new poll running, and the topic is the overlap (or lack thereof) between economic development and tech transfer organizations. (Editor’s note: Here are the poll results.) TTOs’ compatibility with E …
Ask anyone who works in intellectual property management and they’ll tell you: Patents ain’t cheap. (Well, some would use better grammar, but the sentiment is the same.) We’re talking $20K for a U.S. filing alone, and that doesn’t include the ongoing m …
We’ve talked quite a bit about Fuentek’s philosophy of a phased, step-by-step approach to many aspects of technology commercialization. Case in point: we begin by screening whether a technology is fit for commercialization before ramping up for marketing. With this approach, we invest as few resources as necessary in weeding out technologies that are far from ready for commercialization to quickly and cost-efficiently find the golden apples that are ripe for licensing.
Having obtained some interesting information in our social media survey last month, Fuentek has started conducting online polls. And the results for our first poll are in! The question was: How long does it take from the time you receive an invention d …
Last week, I was talking with a tech transfer professional about our webinar to train interns on performing technology screenings. And the question came up: Why interns? Shouldn’t technology managers screen technologies? I can understand why he asked.
My concern with spin-in crowdsourcing is that I’m not sure the “low-cost” aspect is happening. I’m worried that organizations are not factoring in all of the cost aspects of the crowdsourcing model for open innovation. (I also have serious concerns for the solvers who are contributing their creativity without adequate compensation, but that’s another post.)
Yesterday I took a break from my work at Fuentek to be a judge at the 2011 Prometheus Group eGames, presented by the Entrepreneurship Initiative at North Carolina State University. Specifically, I was a judge for the Design and Prototype Challenge. And …
The cost of a screening is comparable regardless of whether it is performed by a professional or a student intern. (Remember that there are costs associated with mentoring and managing interns.) And a screening does not have to be time consuming. In our IP management services, we take only a few hours to perform a screening.
Just as I expected, the games of the NC Regional FIRST Robotics competition this past Friday and Saturday were fun and exciting! I was lucky enough to be a judge again this year, meeting new kids and seeing many of last year’s teams come back. There we …
I’ve been engaged with technology transfer and marketing since the early 1990s. And wow, have things changed in the ways we reach out to potential licensees and partners! I still remember doing flyer snail mailings and faxing in the early days. But the era of social media has long since been ushered in, and at Fuentek we fully embrace it. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised to learn recently that I was one of the first 200,000 members of LinkedIn®. (The site recently tipped the 100M member mark!)
