Panel: Demystifying Technology Transfer and Faculty Start-Up Licensing

Location: Memorial Student Center, BE5

Hear from Marshall experts as they discuss intellectual property, invention disclosures, licensing, commercialization and the process of launching faculty start-up companies.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

Explain the purpose of technology transfer.Recognize research discoveries that may have commercialization potential.Understand the basic disclosure, evaluation, protection, and licensing process.Describe the differences between licensing technology to an existing company and forming a faculty start-up.Identify Marshall resources available to support inventors and entrepreneurs.

Who Should Attend: Faculty, researchers, innovators and graduate students.