AUTM’s Global Technology Portal is an exciting new tool that showcases academic technologies available for licensing. It will help facilitate license agreements, collaborative research agreements, and partnership or investment arrangements for university startups.

Although 2012 has only just begun, it’s shaping up to be pretty busy for tech transfer professionals. Several meetings are coming up that will bring folks together to discuss the latest trends and best practices. First off we have the Licensing Executives Society (USA/Canada) winter meeting and the annual meeting of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM®)—both of which are taking place in Anaheim, CA the week of March 12th.

Attention, AUTM® members! You have a chance to have a prime spot for networking with organizations from every major technology-oriented industry, including medical technologies. That spot: The AUTM booth at AdvaMed 2011 and LES 2011 this fall.

If you’ve been reading the Fuentek blog recently, you already know a bit about the 2012 Strategic Alliances Program Plan for AUTM®. Rounding out our plans for the next year, we’re putting initiatives in place to promote sponsorship opportunities, enhance regional meetings, and attend other association meetings to attract companies from specific industries to engage in potential partnership discussions and attend AUTM events.

I’ve been blogging recently about the 2012 Strategic Alliances Program Plan for AUTM®. An area we’ve been working to assist with is providing valuable information about the state of the art in various industries for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). A new USPTO program, kicking off this year, will be a big step forward toward this goal.

Earlier this month I laid out an overview of the 2012 Strategic Alliances Program Plan for the Association of University Technology Managers®. Serving a global network of more than 3,500 tech transfer professionals working in academic, research, government, and the private sector, AUTM actively facilitates networking and collaboration between corporations and universities.

As vice president for strategic alliances for the Association of University Technology Managers®, I’m looking forward to the months ahead as we kick off our 2012 program plan with several initiatives designed to improve the core goals and services of AUTM® for its members.

For technology transfer professionals getting ready for the next national meeting of the Association of University Technology Managers® (AUTM), it pays to prepare for one-on-one meetings with company representatives attending the conference. This post offers some advice that can really help you dive into these meetings with the confidence, knowledge, and ammunition you need for productive discussions.

As vice president of strategic alliances for the Association of University Technology Managers®, I am working on an effort to expand AUTM’s connections with companies in the physical sciences. You can help by answering this question… Which medical devi …

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