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The Office of Technology Alliances, University of California Irvine exists to foster faculty/industry alliances and commercialization of UC Irvine technology for the broad public benefit. OTA emphasizes accessibility, timeliness, and flexibility in its operations and negotiations to ensure that the federal, state and private investment in UCI research has the greatest possible positive impact on people and the economy. Irvine is one of the designated growth campuses in the University of California system.UC Irvine was established in 1965 as the ninth campus in the University of California system, the largest research university in the world. The UC system has 15,000 faculty researchers, carries out $4 billion in research annually and manages three Department of Energy National Laboratories.
All enquiries related to the Office of Technology Alliances, University of California, Irvine can be directed to:
Demetri Andrikos
Director, Engineering & Physical Sciences
CONNECT collaborates with scientists, engineers, innovators and the venture capital community, to commercialize technology and build successful companies. Twenty years ago the University of California at San Diego, local San Diego businesses, and the city government created CONNECT to transform San Diego based institutional research into a center for technological innovation commercialization.
Over the course of the last two decades, CONNECT has worked with thousands of companies and played a leading role in creating a flourishing ecosystem that now consists of several thousand high tech, software and life science companies. San Diego is considered a world leader in wireless and one of the top centers for biotech in the world. CONNECT has become a model emulated in cities around the world seeking to develop innovation clusters.
CONNECT’s scope of work includes outreach to the regional universities and research institutions, helping innovators evaluate the commercial potential of their discoveries, negotiate licensing deals and launch companies.
CONNECT media contact:
Duane Roth
CEO, CONNECT
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In the late 1990’s, a number of organizations inspired by CONNECT in San Diego were founded in Northern Europe, in particular Connect Scotland and CONNECT Sweden.
At the same time, groups from around the world were beating a path to CONNECT’s door, drawn by press reports of San Diego’s transformation from a sleepy Navy town into a high-tech center. In addition, a number of people at UCSD, notably Associate Vice Chancellor Mary Walshok, a co-founder of CONNECT in 1985, had a strong interest in regional innovation systems worldwide.
These influences and interests came together in the founding of Global CONNECT in 2003.
Global CONNECT seeks to work with regions around the world to understand and further develop their innovation systems. We believe that linking these regions through the Global CONNECT membership network serves the interests of all regions, including San Diego.
Global CONNECT media contact:
Mr Greg Horowitt
Co-Founder and Director, Global Enterprise, Global CONNECT
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Larta Institute is a professional services firm providing entrepreneur training, commercialisation, and technology transfer services for governments, companies, and universities. The Institute accelerates the transition of cutting-edge technologies to the marketplace by connecting innovators to investors and companies. The programs leverage its extensive network of relationships and resources. Since 1993, companies helped by Larta Institute have raised over $1.5 billion in capital. Its programs serve thousands of business people each year. The electronic magazine on business innovation has over 30,000 recipients.
MaRS connects the communities of science, business and capital and fosters collaboration among them. This happens physically through location of research labs, companies of all sizes, business advisors, investors and professional services within the MaRS Centre and more broadly through hands-on advisory services, entrepreneurial programming, our structured networks and expanding electronic community.
The Business Innovation Centre (BIC) has established itself as a leader in supporting the growth of the Knowledge Economy and offers a compelling one-stop environment equipped to turn ideas into commercial reality. At the core of the BIC is the award winning technology business incubator. The BIC offers support to a wide range of early stage technology companies with high growth potential, and a unique collaborative environment focused on the transformation of innovative ideas into business reality. These ideas encompass the continuum from pure technology research to established technology ventures. The Centre engages with industrial networks, commercial partners and University research institutes, providing a range of services targeted at helping start-up companies grow.
For more information please visit innovation.aut.ac.nz or email innovation@aut.ac.nz
WaikatoLink Limited is the commercialization and technology transfer company of the University of Waikato. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Waikato, incorporated in 1993, WaikatoLink was founded to maximise the economic potential of the Universuty’s Intellectual Property and to bridge the gap between academic research and the realization of technology potential.
In a little over 60 years, Binghamton University has built a reputation as a world-class institution that combines a broadly interdisciplinary, international education with one of the most vibrant research programs inthe nation. Binghamton is proud to be a “premier public university”, which means it challenges the students academically, not financially. The result is a truly unique, best-of-both-world college experience.
Binghamton University’s academic culture resembles a first-rate private university - rigorous, collaborative and boldly innovative — while its campus culture exemplifies the best kind of public univesity experience: richly diverse students, active social life and deep engagement with the community. The students, both undergraduate and graduate, work on-on-one with an exceptional faculty that includes Pulitzer Prize winers and groundbreaking scholars. They take advantage of special academic opportunities like combined degrees, foreign language study groups and an unparalleled international education program.
The BC Cancer Agency, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority, provides a province-wide, population-based cancer control program for the residents of British Columbia and the Yukon.
The BC Cancer Agency’s mandate covers the spectrum of cancer care, from prevention and screening to diagnosis, treatment, and through to rehabilitation. The BC Cancer Agency’s mandate is driven by a three-fold mission:
- To reduce the incidence of cancer
- To reduce the mortality rate of people with cancer
- To improve the quality of life of people living with cancer
Founded on 17th of September 1999, the INI-GraphicsNet Stiftung is an officially registered non-profit organization in Darmstadt, Germany. The purpose of the Foundation is the advancement of scientific research and development as well as technology transfer and commercialization. The INI-GraphicsNet comprises a network of research institutes for advanced and applied research in the field of information and communication technologies. With this dynamic synergy and its global presence, the INI-GraphicsNet plays a leading role in its field employing approximately 300 full-time scientific staff, 450 part-time scientific assistants and guest researchers, with a budget of approximately €35 million per annum.
The INI-GraphicsNet forms not only a global network of research institutions, it is also continuously enlarging its worldwide network of technology transfer and innovation management agencies and partners, thus enabling effective translational technology transfer across borders. The INI-GraphicsNet has developed three unique tools for effectively bridging the gap between research and market: The first one is a pro-active integrative process for systematic technology commercialization. As a second tool, an exceptionally effective screening method has been developed and put into place to assess the market potential of research results. The third tool is indeed the existence of a modular entrepreneurship qualification program, which supports a smooth interaction of the two interrelated global networks, one for research/technology development and one for technology commercialization. INI-GraphicsNet’s customers deserve the best approach, advice and recommendations on whether or not - and how - to commercialize services based on appropriate experience, knowledge provided by INI-GraphicsNet.
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Technology Transfer Tactics (TTT) provides in-depth guidance designed to hasten and streamline the commercialisation process, as well as maximise the financial benefits of that process for organisations.
TTT is the first international monthly periodical devoted exclusively to best practices, ‘how to’ and practicalities of technology transfer”. It is now 13 months old. There are over 1,000 monthly readers in its multinational audience. Its sister periodical, the ezine Tech Transfer e-News, is distributed weekly to over 130,000 professionals worldwide.
Every article in TT is results-oriented and carefully crafted to bring readers useable tactics in every key area of the tech transfer challenge. TTT provides readers with extensive case studies, best practices, expert guidance and how-to strategies.
TTT media contact:
Leslie C. Norins, MD, PhD
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Motorola is a global communications leader, powered by, and driving, seamless mobility. The company is revolutionising broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks – bringing cutting-edge technologies into everyday life, with style.
Imprimatur is an operational investment business active on an international basis and focussed on the commercialisation of high-growth IP backed opportunities from Universities, research institutes and other sources. At its core, Imprimatur’s proposition is the belief that IP exploitation from Universities and research institutes will be at the fore in building the technology businesses of the future.
