“Integrated
Integrated Technology Innovation and Commercialization
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Universities:
A Sustainable
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ity off Texas
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University
att A
Austin
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Steven P
P. Nichols
Co PIs: Neil Iscoe
Iscoe, Mary Rankin
Rankin, Ben Streetman
NSF Award IIP
IIP-0650249
0650249
3 Year Award
Start Date: 16 March 2007
B i f Project
Brief
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Overview:
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Key Attributes of our
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Innovation
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Ecosystem:
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Whatt Sta
What
Starts
St ts
t Here
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The “Integrated
Integrated Technology Innovation and Commercialization
Commercialization” Program addresses the “innovation
innovation
gap”” b
between
t
knowledge
k
l d created
t d att Universities
U i
iti and
d social
i l needs
d (broadly
(b dl defined)
d fi d) that
th t university
i
it
technologies could apply to. The three aims are: ● Education ● Commercialization ● Dissemination.
The program:
The Integrated
Th
I t g t d Commercialization
C
i li ti Program
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demonstrates
d
t t out-oft f
the-box
the
box thinking through the structure of the program itself and
th
through
h its
it enterprise
t
i ties
ti beyond
b
d universities,
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iti
including:
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1) Developed cross
cross-disciplinary
disciplinary educational programs including
®), which encompasses
the Idea to Product Program
g
(I2P
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coursework competitions and seminars,
coursework,
seminars engages students in
i
innovation
ti and
d commercialization,
i li ti , and
d provides
p id a community
ity
of resources to support commercialization:
• The Austin Technology
gy Incubator (ATI)
( )
• The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• Oak
O k Rid
Ridge
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National
ti
lL
Labs
b ((ORNL))
700 + Competition participants from
15 countries and 5 continents
5 national
ti
l and
d 6 internationally-based
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ti
lly b
d competitions
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2) Formed partnerships within the University and with other
universities as well as not-for-profit
not for profit organizations to support
technology
gy innovation and commercialization:
Risk Taking:
g
Th IInnovation
The
i G
Gap
pb
between social
i l needs
d and
d
university technologies
60+ Academic partners
partners, 7 Organizational partners
partners, 8 International partners
3) Created
Created, refined
refined, and integrated the TIM Tool (a commercialization tool focusing on the “innovation
innovation gap
gap”)) into
coursework.
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Activities:
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Program
A ti iti
Infrastructure Initiatives
Infrastructure,
Initiatives, and Collaborations
The program is creating a culture of entrepreneurship and growing
institutional support of student and faculty commercialization through
collaborations with: the Austin Technology
gy Incubator,, the Office of
Technology Commercialization
Commercialization, and the new Texas Venture Labs.
Labs
Top
p Contributions:
• Uniting faculty entrepreneurs to discuss how to improve the
commercialization infrastructure at the universityy
Openness/Dissemination:
2 L
d hi position
iti tto encourage and
d
2.
Leadership
support others within the university
p id materials
• Th
The I2P website
b it provides
t i l and
d format
f
t needed
d d to
t
ideatoproduct org)
replicate the Program (www
(www.ideatoproduct.org)
3.
3 Dissemination of I2P competitions
• All events
events, competitions
competitions, and seminars are open to the public
The Idea to Product (I2P®) technology commercialization competitions
teach students how to match a technology with a market need and give
them
e hands-on
a ds o commercialization
co
e c a a o experience,
e pe e ce, mentoring
e o g and
a d feedback.
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5. S
5
Supportt off Deans
D
and
d administrative
d i i t ti
officers
officers, who consider these efforts vital
Highlighted
Competitions
p ii
and
for
Highligh d I2P Based
B
dC
d their
h i hosts
h
f 2010:
2010
• ASME II-Show
Show – ASME International
• Global Venture Challenge
g – Oak Ridge
g National Labs
• I2P Latin America – Fundação Getulio Vargas,
Vargas Brazil
• I2P Portugal
g – Inaugural
g
competition
p
in April
p 2010 at COTEC,, Porto
with 10 teams (www.i2pportugal.org)
(www i2pportugal org)
• I2P It
Italy
l – The
Th inaugural
i
l competition
titi will
ill be
b hosted
h t d by
b IIncubator
b t off
Politecnico di Milano in the summer of 2010
Collaboration
Fields:
C ll b
ti Across
A
Fi
ld
university initiative: Collaboration among engineering
• Pan
Pan-university
engineering,
g
, pharmacy,
p
y, law,, and business
natural sciences,, geosciences,
• Courses are cross-listed across disciplines
p
and colleges
g
• C
Courses and
d I2P teams iinclude
l d engineering,
gi
i g, science,
i
,
law and business undergraduate and graduate students
law,
• Successful I2P teams compete in Moot Corp Business Plan
C
Competition
titi iin the
th M
McCombs
C b S
School
h l off B
Business
i
Pl i
Placing
Partners
P t
in
i “New
“N
New
Environments” & “Playgrounds”:
Environments
Playgrounds
yg
:
Classes & Seminars
St d t Technology
T h l gy Entrepreneurship
E t p
hip
Student
• Creating an environment conductive to commercialization by
students and faculty
• The program is easily disseminated to other universities and
not-for-profit
f p fi iinstitutions.
i i
If iinterested,
d, p
please
l
contact the
h PI
4 Broad university cooperative efforts
4.
Students work in multidisciplinary teams focused on emerging technology
commercialization
commercialization.
• Product Realization and Technology
C
gy Commercialization
Seminar Series – Co-hosted by the Austin Technology
I
Incubator
b t and
d the
th Office
Offi off T
Technology
h l
Commercialization
C
i li ti
• Engineering Entrepreneurship – Honors undergraduate class
class,
cross listed across engineering disciplines
cross-listed
• Enterprise
p
of Technology:
gy From Mind to Market – Graduate
class cross
cross-listed
listed in business,
business law,
law and engineering
• W
Working
ki to
t involve
i
l the
th Offi
Office off T
Technology
h l
Commercialization with the educational program
1. International collaborative efforts and
impact
g
p
Idea to Product® Program/Competitions
Program for the 2009 Global I2P and flyer for
th new I2P Italy
It l C
titi
the
Competitions
Top Challenges:
1 Internal institutional inertia
1.
2 Administrative response
2.
3 Infrastructure
I f t t
h
3.
change
The program is supporting student entrepreneurial groups in their formation
and
d growth
th and
d supporting
ti an international
i t
ti
l student
t d t exchange/internship
h
/i t
hi
The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) and Office of
Technology Commercialization
• The program provided interns to these organizations to
facilitate collaboration and communication,
communication and hosted
exchange students from Aachen, Germany, to work at ATI
3DayStartup
• The program provided key support partnerships to grow this
student-led
student
led weekend. 3DayStartup is now expanding
internationally to partner institution in Germany (6/2010)
L di /I
ii
f Surprising
S
i i
Leading/Inspiring
for
or
p
Unexpected
Results
t d t d
l ttechnology
h l
b
d companies
i in
i
• 3 Day Startup – 40 students
develop
based
one weekend, automatic entry in UT I2P (www.3daystartup.com)
• International student exchange/internship
g
p – Between RWTH Univ.
Entrepreneurship Center and the Austin Technology Incubator
S l t d Partners:
Selected
P t
Questioning
g & Curiosity:
y
New Positions Created at UT
3DayStartup – Student
entrepreneurship group
• Associate VP for Research - Technology Commercialization
and Industry Engagement (University of Texas at Austin)
Start up Ventures (Office of Technology
• Associate Director - Start-up
Commercialization)
New Spring 2010 Class
• Intellectual Property Prosecution
3DayStartup
•
4 new companies started from 3 events
High School Participation
• Oak Ridge National Labs initiated high school I2P
Joe J
J. King Award
National Science Foundation Partnerships For Innovation
G
Grantee’s
Grantee
t ’s Meeting
M ti g April
Ap il 25-27
25 27,
27 2010
Arlington,
A li gt
Arlington
VA