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November 12, 2010 - Invention to Venture: Workshops in Technology Leadership
The LVC sponsored students, post-docs and faculty to attend, Invention to Venture: Workshops in Technology Entrepreneurship on Friday, November 12, 2010 at
Tulane University’s Tidewater Building in downtown New Orleans. The
workshop was put on by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators
Alliance (NCIIA) and sponsored by the New Orleans BioInnovation Center (NOBIC),
the Tulane University Freeman School of Business, the Tulane Entrepreneur
Association (TEA), Tulane University Net Impact and Tulane University Social
Entrepreneurship.
Presentations
covered the topics of technology transfer, commercialization, social entrepreneurship,
and venture planning. A representative from the Louisiana Technology Council highlighted
the advances Louisiana has made in increasing the number of highly-skilled
scientific workforce jobs and our improved perception that is attracting business
to the State. Presenters from the NCIIA and a Washington D.C-based governmental
affairs firm spoke about grant opportunities available for researchers and
students to collaborate and develop technologies as well as federal funding
opportunities available to both researchers and entrepreneurs. Professors from
Tulane’s Freeman School of Business talked of a socially conscious approach to capitalism,
how to maximize networking opportunities and effective tools for pitching
business ideas. The keynote speaker was Bill Shore from Share Our Strength, a
non-profit with the mission to end childhood hunger in the United States. He
spoke about his experiences and gave advice to potential entrepreneurs. The
afternoon sessions involved several case studies of researchers successfully
turning their technologies into commercial ventures. The day concluded with the
LVC’s Steven Ceulemans and Justin Levy, presenting several of the outcomes out
of the Commercialization Program’s “Venture Development” pipeline housed at
NOBIC.
The
workshop was well attended by researchers and entrepreneurs alike and provided
a unique forum for discussion and collaboration. The LVC has helped to foster
events like these that help to bring together the local university and business
communities as well as the public and private sector. Interactions such as
these lead us to create sustainable relationships and programs that benefit the
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