Faculty members with novel ideas for inventions or companies are busy people with packed schedules. So as technology transfer professionals plan faculty outreach efforts, talking a decidedly informal approach — rather than attempting to cajole researchers into scheduled meetings — may improve your results. Several universities have reported successful outcomes with Entrepreneur Office Hours, designed to allow faculty to drop by the TTO for advice, to brainstorm business strategies, check out funding opportunities, and learn about commercialization resources available. “Some tech transfer people may think they can sit in their offices, disclosures will roll in and the checks will roll in. But it’s not that easy. It’s much more of a contact sport,” says Brian Darmody, associate vice president of research and economic development at the University of Maryland (UM). UM’s office hours program has been evolving and growing for five years, and now has specific results to prove the program’s value. Gayatri Varma, PhD, executive director of UM’s Office of Technology Commercialization, traces the launch of three companies directly to the Entrepreneur Office Hours program. “Life sciences here wasn’t very entrepreneurial,” Varma says. “But after the office hours program got started, we had three companies come out of life sciences — and that hadn’t happened before.”<\/p>\n
Columbia University is running a similar program that started just six months ago. “We formalized Entrepreneur Office Hours as part of our efforts to continue to cultivate a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem at Columbia University,” says David B. Lerner, director of CTV Venture Lab, the venture arm of Columbia Technology Ventures that assists faculty and students in start-up formation. A detailed article on the office hours programs appears in the October issue of Technology Transfer Tactics<\/em><\/a>. For subscription information, CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n Faculty members with novel ideas for inventions or companies are busy people with packed schedules. So as technology transfer professionals plan faculty outreach efforts, talking a decidedly informal approach — rather than attempting to cajole researchers into scheduled meetings — may improve your results. Several universities have reported successful outcomes with Entrepreneur Office Hours, designed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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