Editor’s note: This is the third in a six-post series on how Fuentek views technology licensing through a new PRISM. How do you decide if the return is worth the investment when you’re prioritizing your technology licensing opportunities? There are lot …

Editor’s note: This is the second in a six-post series on how Fuentek views technology licensing through a new PRISM. Whether your intellectual property (IP) portfolio is small or enormous, prioritizing your commercialization opportunities let’s you pu …

Doesn’t an acronym make everything better? Seriously, sometimes the act of sitting down and thinking through the essence of what you do in an effort to come up with a clever, memorable acronym leads you to greater clarity about what’s really important. …

The award-winning inflatable antenna was deployed to assist with communications efforts following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. (Image courtesy of GATR Technologies) A technology with roots in an ongoing technology transfer relationship with NA …

To be successful in licensing your intellectual property, you have to be able to describe it well. A new paper gives some useful advice on how to write an effective technology description, which is a key aspect of marketing intellectual property. You can download the “How to Write an Effective Technology Marketing Description” paper.

Yes, you can be an astronaut based on the south pole of the moon! How? With NASA Moonbase Alpha, the first installment in NASA’s massive, multiplayer online (MMO) game. NASA released the game on Valve’s Steam network. In the game, NASA has returned to the moon, with Moonbase Alpha as a small, self-sufficient outpost and the players assuming the exciting role of an astronaut working to further human expansion and research. We at Fuentek are particularly pleased with this game launch, because it is the culmination of a lot of hard work in developing the partnership as part of our work for the agency’s technology transfer program.

In most organizations, the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) is where the rubber meets the road when it comes to intellectual property (IP) management. So it is easy to forget that someone outside the office is a key player in commercialization: the innovators who develop the technology you’re licensing out to external organizations.

Last Tuesday, I had the pleasure of serving on a panel discussing the rising trend in Technology Transfer Office (TTO) use of social media to market intellectual property portfolios. Sponsored by Technology Transfer Tactics, the webinar was designed to …

As we continue to hear about the deteriorating conditions in the Gulf of Mexico and await word as to the exact cause of the BP oil spill, I am reminded of the many innovations emerging from NASA that can help the oil industry—indeed, almost any industr …

Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to attend the annual NASA Spinoff Day on the Hill event sponsored by NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist and the agency’s Innovative Partnerships Program. This event was established to raise awareness about NASA’s spinoffs by informing members of Congress and the public about commercial applications and quality of life benefits originating from NASA technologies and other intellectual property. The highlight of the event was the presence of spinoff companies demonstrating their technology commercialization successes.