This webinar will be recorded live on May 9, 2024. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date. You may pre-order the recording here.

Don't miss this chance to sharpen your non-confidential deck crafting skills in preparation for your next partnering event. Gain mastery over preparatory strategies essential for successful partnering meetings. Join AUTM's upcoming webinar for insights into crafting compelling non-confidential decks tailored for academic-industry partnerships. Explore the intricacies of data presentation, understanding what to include and exclude from non-confidential slide decks. Engage with panelists as they share strategies for effectively presenting data to potential partners, facilitating thorough evaluation. Discover how TTOs can customize their data presentation to align with the diverse needs and interests of various collaboration types, thereby maximizing engagement and partnership potential. Panelists will provide valuable tips for effective follow-up post-partnering meeting, ensuring continued momentum and fruitful collaboration opportunities.

This webinar will be recorded live on February 5, 2024. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date. You may pre-order the recording here.

Join us to take an early look at some of the content from the upcoming AUTM Valuation Course to be given at the 2024 Annual Meeting in San Diego. This session will guide you through the "Creating Value" module of the course and help you better understand your licensee's business model and key success factors as well as how certain aspects may affect the license terms and negotiation. With this "Creating Value" session, you will be off to an excellent start in understanding: " Long Tail of IP Value " Value of IP to the University " Value of IP to the Licensee " What to Know Before you Negotiate a License " Factors that Affect Value of a Potential License " Startup or Established Company? " Running Royalties " Royalty Base

This webinar will be recorded live on January 29, 2024. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date. You may pre-order the recording here.

With the unveiling of NIST's draft inter-agency framework for march in rights, one of the most challenging threats to our profession is now on our doorstep. The Bayh-Dole Act's march-in provision allows the federal government to take back patent rights for federally funded inventions under very specific circumstances. The "draft interagency guidance framework" proposed by NIST seeks to substantially increase the government's march-in authority. AUTM believes this misguided effort to expand march-in rights will stifle innovation by creating significant uncertainty in licensing of all federally funded inventions-not just drugs.

This webinar will be recorded live on December 13 2023. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date. You may pre-order the recording here.

How do venture capitalists choose which deep tech ideas to build? This webinar will spotlight how VCs think about product-market fit. Learn how they stress test technologies and validate the cutting-edge ideas that will define the future..

The new European Unitary Patent system is open for business, which means universities now have a choice when it comes to filing patent applications in Europe: as a unitary patent valid in most European nations, as a traditional patent valid in a specific nation or a combination of the two approaches. The unitary patent system is intended to harmonize national laws, reduce costs, and encourage European innovation, but benefits coincide with risks in the new patent landscape. For patent owners, it is essential to have a basic understanding of the new unitary system and the new Unified Patent Court (UPC).

This webinar will be recorded live on August 30, 2023. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date. You may pre-order the recording here.

Pursuing and successful managing complex multi-party grant awards, such as NSF ART, NSF Engine, EDA Tech Hub, NIH REACH, and others, requires project management best practices to coordinate transdisciplinary teams for productive outcomes. Project management is not just "being organized", but instead is a professionally certified set of skills, knowledge and practices that should be employed with fidelity. It is important for technology transfer offices and related ecosystem partners to understand project management, as research universities are increasingly investing in this capability. This includes learning how it is uniquely applied to the grant proposal team building, concept buy-in, proposal drafting, pre-award management, and post-award management processes.

This webinar will be recorded live on June 13, 2023. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date. You may pre-order the recording here.

The need to demonstrate the impact and value of technology transfer through compelling stories emerged as a recurring theme. However, distilling often complex information into narratives and delivering engaging, accessible stories in high-stakes situations can be a challenge, particularly for those unfamiliar with storytelling techniques.

This webinar will include practical case studies to illustrate the strategies available, highlight a successful use of storytelling and also storytelling pitfalls to avoid, so you can quickly harness and apply the power of storytelling in your own work.

This webinar was recorded live on May 11, 2023. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date.

What is generative AI? Why should you care? In this session, you will discover the current state of AI and applications, such as ChatGPT, that are already at your disposal. Learn how you can implement these tools in your office, some of the most pressing risks and concerns your office might face, and a look into what's coming next.

This webinarwas recorded live on April 4, 2023. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date.

Expanding Business networks, tapping into diverse perspectives and strengthening teamwork, collaboration and innovation - these are the outcomes you can expect when you embrace equity, diversity and inclusion as a business imperative. Numerous studies have shown that diverse teams are more creative, productive and perform better than non-diverse teams.

In this webinar, you will learn the why and how of inclusive leadership that fosters a culture where everyone feels valued and respected. Using the AUTM Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Toolkit as a learning tool, we will discuss how to develop the a unique EDI strategy and system that is most relevant for your organization. We will cover understanding implicit and structural bias, improving global and cultural awareness, key best practices and how to measure impact.

This webinar was recorded live on February 9, 2023. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date.

Utilization reporting provides funding agencies with valuable information on the outputs of their extramural research programs. They allow the agencies to track successes, ensure compliance with specific statutory requirements, and realize the full impact of federal funding and the return on investment for taxpayer investment in research.

Recently the Interagency Working Group for Bayh-Dole (IAWGBD) has agreed to make specific changes in utilization reporting, which will go into effect on October 1, 2023. Agencies participating in iEdison will begin asking for annual utilization reporting. In the past, some agencies would ask for these utilization reports regularly via iEdison at the end of the contractor’s/awardee’s fiscal year, while others might ask for them outside of iEdison on an ad hoc basis. Additionally, the IAWGBD is developing a standard set of questions, modeled after the existing questions, to be asked by every participating agency. However, each agency can ask for supplemental questions related to inventions made with funding from that agency.

Join this webinar, led by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where we will go over these changes in more depth, discuss how iEdison is being updated in association with these changes,Êlet awardees know how they can prepare for the changes, and answer questions.

This webinar was recorded live on January 24, 2023. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date.

Regulatory approval and patent protection are key milestones for the success of any medical device. While the legal pathways to achieve each are distinct, there are important areas of interplay between the two. This webinar will address the FDA’s regulatory approval processes, common pitfalls to avoid, and how to effectively coordinate with attaining and maintaining patent protection for medical devices.

This webinar will be recorded live on December 7, 2022. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date. You may pre-order the recording here.

In the webinar, the co-presenters will engage in a hypothetical dialogue between a university licensing officer and an outside patent attorney discussing an AI innovation that the university is considering for patenting. They will explore questions including: whether the innovation is patentable, how to frame the claims for maximum licensing value, whether to divide the claims into multiple applications, and how the claiming format supports identifying licensing partners. The discussion will focus on practical issues raised by AI which could otherwise easily be overlooked, in a format that is designed to emulate the day-to-day challenges that universities face when patenting and licensing innovations in AI.

This webinar will be recorded live on November 15, 2022. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date. You may pre-order the recording here.

Students and researchers do not need to develop the same level of entrepreneurial skill competency when exploring research commercialization as startup founders. Early-stage startup founders don’t need to establish proficiency in the same entrepreneurial skills as founders later in the startup journey. Not all startup ecosystem players need to develop programs to support all types of founders for all entrepreneurial competency proficiency development along the startup journey.

This session will introduce two detailed & actionable frameworks to support intentional program design, focusing on driving right-sized learning outcomes to support specific progress from idea to impact. A discussion will follow on how Dalhousie University adopted these frameworks within Dal Innovates and the I-INC network with the Scientist to Entrepreneur suite of programs to support program alignment and optimization at both organizations

This Spotlight Session will be recorded live on October 28, 2022. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date. You may pre-order the recording here.

The past couple years have been remarkable in many ways — including that we heard more about the policies that guide the tech transfer profession from policymakers and the press. Attention is good, and a world-wide pandemic has given us opportunities to spread the word on how science and business can come together to quickly develop vaccines. A societal reckoning with diversity and equity is also amplifying our voices when we talk about eliminating demographic gaps in entrepreneurship and patenting.

Attendees will watch the recording of a presentation from the 2022 Annual Meeting. After the presentation, the panelists will join live for a dynamic question and answer session. The presentation and the Live Q&A will be included in this recording.