Office of Innovation and Economic Development offering commercialization workshops
The University of Maine Office of Innovation and Economic Development is offering workshops for faculty, staff and students interested in doing research with companies or turning their research into innovations for the public.
The commercialization workshops are part of the University of Maine System Innovates series. Participants can earn a completion certificate by attending the four core workshops and two electives.
The upcoming core workshop, Intellectual Property and Know-How, will be held 9:30–11 a.m.March 13 at the Foster Center for Student Innovation. The workshop is meant to give faculty, staff and students a broad overview of intellectual property by diving deep into the types of protection. The workshop also will go over standard operating procedures for various commercialization scenarios and the rights and responsibilities of UMaine faculty and researchers.
Scheduled speakers are Jake Ward, UMaine’s vice president for innovation and economic development, and Dave Robertson, patent attorney at Leber IP Law. RSVP online.
Other upcoming events in the University of Maine System Innovates series include:
Intro to Commercialization
April 4, noon–1:30 pm
Attendees will learn the fundamentals of research commercialization in a university setting, understand the various pathways to the marketplace, get exposure to campus resources designed to assist faculty, and learn about additional professional development offerings planned for the year. More information and registration is online.
Idea Validation
April 10, 2–3:30 p.m.
New innovations based on cutting-edge research have a high failure rate because they focus on the wrong needs or even the wrong end user. Attend the idea validation workshop to learn how you can use Innovation Engineering tools to test your assumptions and validate their alignment with end-user needs, wants and expectations. More information and registration is online.
Elective workshops include:
- Grant Writing and Funding Pathways, noon–1:30 p.m. April 18
- Commercialization in Education, Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, 8–9:30 a.m. April 30
- Entrepreneurial Businesses: The Beginning, Middle and End, fall 2019
- SBIR/STTR Workshop, fall 2019
- Industry Collaborations and Licensing, fall 2019
- Ethics in Commercialization, fall 2019