1. INTRODUCTION Technology Transfer and Commercialization with UTEN@Austin Cliff Zintgraff Program Manager, UTEN@Austin

2. About UTEN@Austin The mission of UTEN@Austin is to help build a globally competitive and sustainable science and technology commercialization infrastructure in Portugal. UTEN is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

3. UT Austin | Portugal CoLab UTEN@Austin is one of four programs in the International Collaboratory for Emerging Technologies, or CoLab. UTEN works toward sustainable technology transfer in the program areas, and in other disciplines. Digital Media Advanced Computing Math Other Areas UTEN

4. UTEN Executive Board INESC Porto: José Mendonça, Chair TecMinho: Manuel Mota, Jamie Ferreira, Marta Catarino UPIN, University of Porto: Jorge Gonçalves, Maria Oliveira IPN: Teresa Mendes IST: Rui Baptista, Maria José Francisco

5. Organizations 1.University of Algarve 2.IST 3.Taguspark 4.University of Lisbon / IMM 5.New University of Lisbon 6.INPI 7.University of Evora 8.IPN / University of Coimbra 9.University of Aveiro 10.University of Porto / UPIN 11.University of Porto / UPTEC 12.University of Porto / FEUP 13.TecMaia 14.University of Minho / TecMinho 15.University of Tres-os-Montes at Alto Douro

6. Technologies / Companies (sampling) 1.Bioalvo 2.Fluidinova 3.WeAdapt 4.PETSYS 5.AuditMark 6.Critical – RetMarker 7.BlueWorks 8.iSurgical 3D And more at … http://www.techportugal.com/index2.php

7. What Is Sustainable Tech Transfer? Productive researchers Who know how to work with TT staff & industry Professional University TT staff Office strategy Tech assessment Market analysis Licensing Supportive administration Entrepreneurs Local, national and global networks Focused on the market

8. UTEN Activities University Research License or Commercialize Market L I V E C A S E S Assessment Training Internships Education

9. UTEN Values Our “Style” Global market orientation Grassroots development Live cases Change agents / bias for action

10. Education  10-point curriculum for TT staff  Integrated with live cases  Strategy -> tactics -> execution

11. Training  National workshops  Local workshops  One-on-one sessions

12. Assessment  Portfolio Assessment  Global Market Assessment Brutal focus on market perceptions.

13. Internships  U.S. based  Strategic goals for TTOs  Embedded in U.S. organization  Portfolio review / tech development

14. Today -- Researcher Workshop 11:00Introduction 11:15Pitch Camp 12:00Best (and Worst) Researcher Practices 12:45Wrap-up Panel 13:30Close

15. Entrepreneur Workshop 1.Introduction 2.Global Market Strategy 3.Global Market Assessment

16. Guidelines for today 1.Pick a technology. 2.We won’t stop, but you can take a break when the time is right.

17. Researcher Workshop -- The UTEN Way Interactive Engaging (we hope) Live-case based Everyone involved – and if you’re not …

19. INTRODUCTION Technology Transfer and Commercialization with UTEN@Austin Cliff Zintgraff Program Manager, UTEN@Austin

20. PITCH CAMP Heath Naquin, UTEN@Austin Tom Gardner, UTEN@Austin

21. Reseacher’s Best (and Worst) Practices in Technology Transfer

22. STARRING Heath Naquin as himself Cliff Zintgraff as Dr. Jones Tom Gardner as Discussion Leader

23. About The Mock Interviews  Two inventor interviews  Just like in our RapidScreen assessment  That reflect real interviews we’ve done  That kindly highlight some issues about how researchers could/should deal with commercialization professionals

24. Disclaimer Any similarity to real persons or projects is totally on purpose.

25. INTERVIEW 1 “Rapid Response Contextual Phrase Matching with Enhancements from Frequency Domain Searches ”

26. INTERVIEW 1 DISCUSSION

27. INTERVIEW 2 “EduPath – Solving Our Alignment Problems in Education ”

28. INTERVIEW 2 DISCUSSION

29. Panel: Working With Your Tech Transfer Office Marta Catarino TecMinho Dina Chaves Pedro Vilarinho New University of Lisbon Nuno Silva Miguel Castanho University of Lisbon / IMM Eli Mercer UTEN@Austin

30. Name one behavior we discussed this morning – good or bad – that you’ve seen personally. Tell us about it! Tell us the impact of the behavior on the project you were working on.

31. What is the most important advice you can give researchers about working with your office?

33. UTEN Researcher Workshop is underway! Join us in the Auditorium, right back corner of showroom.