Poster presentation: University Technology Transfer Process and University Libraries
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Great, thank you very much. Hi Terrence. Please let me know if you have any issues hearing me or seeing my slides. Looks good. And I think, yep, the screen is shared. Looks good. You're welcome to begin, sir. Great. Thank you very much. So today I'll be talking about university technology transfer and university libraries.
00:21
I am an entrepreneurship librarian at Michigan State University. So you're probably familiar, but university technology transfer really speaks to the broad set of operations at a university where they're looking to take scientific innovations and support the process of bringing those innovations to bear in the marketplace.
00:40
So could be many things from licensing of patents to actually starting up businesses as well. So one of the motivations for me is because I'm excited by the prospect of seeing those real world impacts play out. And the university plays an important part in this burgeoning, always growing, always
01:05
becoming more important, I think, technology landscape, which includes venture capital and startups and investors and governments, but also the university and that the library can play an important part in this. So this is a very brief rundown of the technology transfer process, where you're going
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from research and innovation all the way to business execution. And the university libraries are really already experts in business information literacy, but also making clear to different audiences where there's language differences, where
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things are going to be changing as you're going from academia to business and really making that a smoother, less stressful process for people. But these coaching and market sizing and market analysis and introductory patent search, these are all things that business librarians often already do.
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But there are, of course, challenges to being more involved in this work. It may be outside the scope of your business library's current operations, and there may be cultural pushback. It may be outside the scope of your entire library's workflow.
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And that also is reflected in the materials licensing that they may not be licensed to support technology transfer work. And of course, this work can be time intensive. So scoping it is incredibly important. So some of the upside and why that might be worth getting involved in any way.
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So there's incredibly high impact potential. And in my experience that these people may find you anyways, if you're involved in entrepreneurship research, so you can be proactive and be better prepared to support their work if you're planning for it.
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So some of the best practices are to know what your university's research innovation strengths are, and to better understand the TTO and your institution to know who might be best coached and to know your licenses. But if you're curious, please reach out to me and join us in the discussion.
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And thanks for your attention.