Archive for 'Technology transfer' Category
BIO 2008
7 May 2008Once again, I’m going to be attending BIO this year. My focus this year is to expand my network of contacts in the early stage product development space. As I have done in previous years, I’m going to spend some time in the BIO business forum where I can see some of the early stage [...]
Link to article on innovative approach to teaching commercialization skills
10 December 2007There was an article on an online course that I am involved in teaching on the subject of technology commercialization this past weekend in the local paper. Here’s the link http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/careers/bowes/story/4090412p-4688545c.html. More information on the course can be found at http://www.hot-technologies.ca/iptcm/.
Infectious Diseases Technology Forum
25 April 2007I’m currently involved in pulling together a one-day forum on infectious diseases. We’ve taken the approach that the various groups involved in infectious diseases (researchers, government epidemiologists, public health, biotech and pharmaceutical companies, etc) all need to work more closely to ensure that the threat of infectious diseases is kept at bay. If you are [...]
Startups and challenges
22 October 2006Guy Kawaski has a great post on the Art of Commercialization and some of the challenges related to creation of a startup. While I don’t agree that “the value of a technology is directly related to the number of man-years it took to develop”, I believe it is far more complicated than that. I do [...]
Convincing somebody to let you develop their technologies part 1
27 September 2006I’ve been involved in searching for technologies that people are looking to develop and helping them to partner. One challenge that I come across regularly, is why should anyone license their technology to you? To create a win-win situation it is important to have a realistic picture of what both sides are providing [...]
