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About Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd
Exploit Technologies is the strategic marketing and commercialisation arm of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Its mission is to support A*STAR in transforming the economy through commercialising R&D. Exploit Technologies enhances the research output of A*STAR scientists by translating their inventions into marketable products or processes. Through licensing deals and spin-offs with industry partners, Exploit Technologies is a key driver of technology transfer in Singapore. It actively engages industry leaders and players to commercialise A*STAR’s technologies and capabilities, bridging the gap from Mind to Market. Exploit Technologies’ charter is to identify, protect and exploit promising intellectual property (IP) created by A*STAR’s research institutes.
For more information, please visit www.exploit-tech.com .
Exploit Technologies media contact:
Seeto Wei Peng
DID: 65 6478 8443
Mobile: 65 8375 9474
Email: weipeng@exploit-tech.com
About Nanyang Polytechnic
Nanyang Polytechnic is a modern tertiary institution that offers quality education in engineering, design, interactive & digital media, IT, business management, health sciences and chemical & life sciences. With the mission to prepare its graduates for life and work, NYP constantly collaborates with the industry in cutting-edge technology projects, so as to provide relevance and a firm foundation for its students.
For more information, please visit www.nyp.edu.sg.
About Nanyang Technopreneurship Center (NTC)
NTC is a multi-disciplinary university-level center of the Nanyang Technological University and is the focal point for education on entrepreneurship and technology innovation within the University and the region. NTC’s specific interest in the Technology Transfer Network is to solely participate in the education aspects of the TTN.
For more information on NTC, please visit www.ntu.edu.sg/ntc.
About Ngee Ann polytechnic
Ngee Ann Polytechnic is one of Singapore’s leading institutions of higher learning. The polytechnic offers both business-related and technology-based diploma and advanced diploma programmes. The polytechnic aims to provide relevant, balanced and value-added curricula by creating an effective teaching and learning environment. A key thrust for the polytechnic is forging partnerships with industry and other institutions in order to keep students close to current industry and market practices.
For more information, please visit www.np.edu.sg.
About Republic Polytechnic
The first educational institution in Singapore to adopt the Problem-Based Learning approach for all its diploma programmes, Republic Polytechnic has five schools and two centres offering twenty nine diploma courses in Information & Communications Technology, Engineering, Applied Science, Technology for the Arts, Sports, Health & Leisure, Innovation and Enterprise, and Culture and Communication. Republic Polytechnic is committed to nurturing innovation and entrepreneurial learning in an environment that develops problem-solving process skills and a life-long learning attitude. Its holistic, broad-based curriculum, covering culture, enterprise development and cognitive processes, prepares students for an active and meaningful role in society.
For more information, please visit www.rp.sg.
About Singapore Management University
Incorporated on 12 January 2000, Singapore Management University (SMU) aims to groom outstanding business leaders and creative entrepreneurs capable of excelling in a rapidly changing and dynamic world. Today, SMU is home to 5,400 students and comprises six schools: Lee Kong Chian School of Business, School of Accountancy, School of Economics, School of Social Sciences, School of Information Systems and School of Law. SMU offers bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degree programmes in business and management-related areas, ranging from Accountancy, Economics, Finance, Wealth Management, Law, Information Systems and Social Science. It also has a dedicated Office of Research, a number of centres of excellence, and provides public and customized programmes through Executive Education. Collaborations with leading institutions, including The Wharton School, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, allow SMU to draw on academic and research strengths across all major disciplines. The SMU campus is a state-of-the art facility located right in the heart of Singapore’s civic and business district.
For more information, please visit www.smu.edu.sg.
About Singapore Polytechnic
Established in 1954 to meet the manpower needs identified by the government, Singapore Polytechnic (SP) is Singapore’s first educational institution of its kind. Its eight academic schools offer 44 full-time diploma courses for its 16,000 students and courses are kept relevant through close links with industry and government bodies, as well as with various overseas institutions.
SP offers broad-based, multi-disciplinary and flexible curriculum dedicated to hands-on experience and is committed to the development of its applied research and development capability to enhance the quality of teaching and commercialisation efforts. Beyond the classroom, over 80 student clubs covering areas like arts, culture, sports and community service make student life vibrant and fulfilling. The presence of foreign students from countries such as China, India and Indonesia also provides a variety of cultures and perspectives, nurturing a global mindset in Singapore Polytechnic students.
Among SP’s 140,000 graduates are successful entrepreneurs, top executives in multinational and public-listed corporations, and well-known professionals, many of whom are captains of industries, university professors and researchers, and leaders in government.
For more information, please visit www.sp.edu.sg.
About Temasek Polytechnic
Temasek Polytechnic (TP) is a significant contributor to the field of para-professional education in Singapore and a pioneer in Problem-based Learning (PBL). Our combination of hands-on experience, relevant life skills and an enriching learning environment enables our graduates to excel in both career and life. Through our holistic approach to education, we ensure TP graduates are economy relevant, future relevant and life relevant. The Polytechnic is also a firm believer in forging partnerships with industry to keep students close to current industry practice. TP currently offers 45 full-time diploma courses in the areas of Applied Science, Business, Design, Engineering, Humanities & Social Sciences and Informatics & IT and over 40 part-time courses, up to the Advanced Diploma level.
For more information, please visit www.tp.edu.sg.
Affiliate Members:
About Office of Technology Alliances, University of California Irvine
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 (Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos).
All enquiries related to the Office of Technology Alliances, University of California, Irvine can be directed to:
Demetri Andrikos
Director, Engineering & Physical Sciences
Email: dandriko@rgs.uci.edu
About CONNECT
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.
For more information, please visit www.connect.org.
CONNECT media contact:
Duane Roth
CEO, CONNECT
Email: djroth@connect.org
About Global CONNECT
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.
For more information, please visit globalconnect.ucsd.edu
Global CONNECT media contact:
Mr Greg Horowitt
Co-Founder and Director, Global Enterprise, Global CONNECT
Email : ghorowitt@ucsd.edu
About Larta’s Institute
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.
For more information, please visit www.larta.org.
About MaRS
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.
For more information, please visit www.marsdd.com.
About AUT Innovation and Enterprise
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
About WaikatoLink Limited
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.
For more information, please visit www.waikatolink.ac.nz.
About Binghamton University
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.
For more information, please visit www.binghamton.edu.
About BC Cancer Agency
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
For more information, please visit www.bccancer.bc.ca.
About INI-GraphicsNet
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.
For more information, please visit www.ini-graphics.net.
About Auckland UniServices Ltd
Auckland UniServices Limited is the commercialization arm of the University of Auckland, which is New Zealand’s leading research university and rated in the top 1% of research led universities in the world. Auckland UniServices has been in the business of commercializing reseach at Auckland University for 20 years and has grown to become the largest commercialization offices of its kind in Australia with annual revenues of NZ$100 million and a staff of over 700 employees. Growth continues at 15%. Most of this growth is from internaitonal sources and we currently enjoy business with clients and partners in over 30 countries. In 2007 our 25 start-u companies attracted over NZ$100 million of investment.
For more information, please visit www.uniservices.co.nz.
Associate Members:
About Technology Transfer Tactics
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
Email: RaineyN@aol.com
About Motorola
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.
For more information, please visit www.motorola.com.
About Imprimatur Capital
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.
For more information, please visit www.imprimaturcapital.com.
