| Academic Institutions are superb in generating promising early stage inventions. However, they are often overvalued and undercapitalized on their way to commercial application. Here we will review some of the basics of a technology license and explore how these map onto a coherent strategy for success - technology assessment and roadmaps, market potential and commercial plan. Ideally, our technology license forms the basis for a both-win partnership.
About the speaker: Dan Abraham, PhD; Director, Morningside/Lamont; Columbia Technology Ventures Dan joined Tech Ventures in July of 2007, and is leading Columbia's technology transfer activities across the Morningside and Lamont campuses. Dan comes to Columbia from The General Electric Company, where as Vice President and Chief Technologist for GE's Technology Licensing Group, Dan was in charge of identifying and developing promising technologies and licensing strategies across GE's Global Research Organization. Prior to GE, Dan served as Vice President and Chief Technologist for Veeco Instruments, a major Nanotechnology provider where he managed R&D targeting information technology markets. Dan has conducted nanoscience R&D at AT&T Bell Labs, IBM Zurich, The University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and co-founded a nanotechnology start-up.
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