Office of Technology Transfer Collaborations
The McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship and UA Office of Technology Transfer collaborate on many levels to advance university owned knowledge to the market place. The programs and initiatives also involve and include learning opportunities for a wide variety of campus learners; students, faculty, administrators, and business community members.
Examples of collaborations include:
Feasibility and Market Assessments
Students working in teams and individually to identify potential applications for early stage UA owned technologies and knowledge sets and conducting an assessment of the market potential, assisting inventing faculty and the UA Office of Technology transfer in decision making regarding ongoing research and development and in enhancing funding options. Students participate in feasibility and market assessments through traditional course work, internships, and independent study opportunities.
Commercialization Planning and Business Plan Development
Graduate and undergraduate business and non business students enrolled in the award winning McGuire Entrepreneurship Program have the opportunity to develop comprehensive investment quality business plans for UA technologies and knowledge sets as the driver for their entrepreneurship education delivery. For over one year, business planning teams comprised of entrepreneurship students, inventing faculty, mentors in residence, technology mentors, and Office of Technology Transfer personnel. All aspects of market potential and business formation are addressed. The relationship is governed by a memorandum of understanding developed by the UA Office of
Technology Transfer, the UA Attorney’s Office, and the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, providing understanding of position and basis for free flow of information for all team members. Successful outcomes include critical knowledge and venture and licensing paths for UA technologies, information for investment issues, and of course full venture launch.
Credit Courses
The McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship continually strives to provide entrepreneurship education opportunity to all interested UA learners. This is accomplished largely through enabling departments, programs, and colleges to create learning opportunities specific to their discipline or area of focus. The UA Office of Technology Transfer and McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship regularly collaborate to determine key areas of focus for new courses and learning outcomes. New courses launched through this collaboration include entrepreneurship courses in science and engineering, and campus wide courses in IP management, early stage technology assessment, and marketing of innovations. New courses in the planning stage include science for business series focusing on science fundamentals in areas such as bioscience, optics, IT, and so forth.
Mentoring and Leadership
UA Office of Technology Transfer key personnel and faculty are regular faces around the entrepreneurship program. OTT Director Patrick Jones was named a McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial Fellow in 2004 and three other key staff members hold Eller Faculty Fellowship or Faculty Scholarship positions in the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship. Within these positions these individuals serve as technology and business planning mentors to entrepreneurship students and contribute to joint collaborations benefiting the broad university community.
Seminars and Colloquia
As in the identification and development of credit courses to advance knowledge transfer at the UA, the Office of Technology Transfer and the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship collaborate on the planning and delivery of seminars and colloquia to benefit faculty, administrators, post docs, and business community members. Examples include a workshop series: From Lab to Market, a workshop series designed around the characteristics that make scientists great researchers to help them advance market exploration for their inventions.
Community Partnerships
Through the collaborative relationship of the UA Office of Technology Transfer and the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, the local and non local business communities have a great opportunity to contribute to and advance entrepreneurial growth and outcomes. Barriers and challenges of managing growth with a large institution are minimized and opportunities and solutions are created. Partnerships with the Arizona Desert Angels, Arizona Center for Innovation, Business Development Finance Corporation, and technology specific associations and groups are beneficiaries of a collaborative environment.
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