Technology Transfer Tactics will be offering a webinar entitled "How Notre Dame's IDEA Center Took University Start-Up Formation from Puny to Powerhouse: A Case Study in Performance Improvement" on September 11, 2018 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm (ET). James Thompson, Associate Vice President for Innovation, Executive Director, Commercialization Team, and Karen Slaggert, Director, Student Entrepreneurship will reveal how the IDEA Center was conceived, implemented, and coordinated to attract record numbers of entrepreneurial-minded students and faculty, and how projects are vetted and supported. They will also cover the following topics:
• IDEA's conception and formulation
• Where does IDEA's funding come from?
• Insight into the daily management of the Center
• Criteria for participation in IDEA
• Review of faculty-related issues: University stake, IP ownership, facility use, etc.
• Review of student-related issues: outreach, engagement, programs and contests that draw students in
• What is the Center's role within the university and its commercialization pipeline?
• Understanding how IDEA achieved a dramatic increase in start-up formation . . . and the plan to continue the upswing
The registration fee for the webinar is $197. Those interested in registering for the webinar, can do so here.
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