Need to know more about technology licensing, raising venture funds, or writing a grant? We’ve got you covered.
Throughout the year, Pathways offers innovators and entrepreneurs on-demand and live seminars, cohort-based workshops as well as one-on-one coaching on a variety of topics. Use our training resources to learn and grow!
Be inspired by UF Innovator of the Year 2019, Dr. Benjamin Lok. In this video, Dr. Lok, a UF CISE Professor and co-founder of Shadow Health Inc., shares his insights on how you can combine innovation with an academic career.
Want to protect your ideas and create value through intellectual property (IP)? Join UF Innovate’s annual IP Workshop held in October each year. This free workshop is open to all UF faculty, postdocs, students, and staff.
Look for upcoming dates in the UF Innovate | Pathways newsletter and website, or contact us.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) offers a range of ongoing free virtual intellectual property training and resources for innovators and entrepreneurs.
Learn the basics of protecting creative works, such as software, books, videos, music, and more, with copyright and how this differs from patented inventions. You can review the Copyright Registration Toolkit.
Visit the University of Florida Education Portal to access free on-demand technology transfer training and learn how innovative technologies are commercialized through technology evaluation, patent and copyright protection, marketing, licensing, and more.
UF Innovate has collaborated with AUTM, the leading organization supporting academic technology transfer, to bring you these 200+ hours of webinar recordings.
You can learn:
You can log into the AUTM University of Florida Education portal created by AUTM for the UF Campus Community anytime, search for topics and watch the webinars at your convenience on a UF network.
NSF I-Corps customer discovery training prepares scientists and engineers to extend their reach beyond the laboratory, determine the commercial potential of their innovation, translate your technology, and impact society. Learn how to identify the target customers and develop a solution that fits their need. The training:
Visit the NSF I-Corps at UF page and enroll in an Intro to NSF I-Corps Workshop.
Learn the importance of the business model, team, and what academic innovators can do to advance commercialization.
In this UF Innovate Insights seminar Developing an Innovative Idea into a Product serial entrepreneur John Engels who is a co-founder of the successful local startup Axogen Inc., shares his insights on technology development and his experience successfully overcoming commercialization challenges to bring biomedical products to market. John will also discuss how he partnered with UF and academic innovators to develop innovative ideas into products.
How do you present your technology to an investor in 1 minute without a slide deck? Robert Mino one of the UF Innovate Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIRs) will share his insights and practical tips on communicating your technology or startup. Click here to view the recording and put these tips into practice.
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