A Major Research Institute
Goal: To revolutionize personalized medicine and diagnostics in both developed and undeveloped nations through the commercialization of inventions from a world-class research institute.
Status:
Establish a creative and aggressive team to identify intellectual property from the institute.
Capture historical commercialization activities: successful and unsuccessful and summarize learnings.
Draft a strategy that would bring select inventions more quickly to market or more efficiently to acquisition.
Pilot approach to demonstrate and validate approach.
Develop a message that defines a compelling purpose, creates excitement, and generates broad engagement to all of the Institute’s collaborators.
Establish strategic alliances with industrial partners and with various investment groups.
A Leading University Department
Goal: To establish a program for assisting professors with the externalization of their IP.
Result:
Helped define a commercialization strategy and guidelines to coordinate activities between university departments, IP and technology transfer offices.
Worked with several academic groups to perform due diligence.
Established technology, development and preliminary business plans.
Provided commercialization and funding advice.
Provided warm introductions.
Established several strategic partnerships.
