Campus to Commercialization: Duke’s Objectives in a License
by Robin Rasor, Executive Director, OTC OTC is the office that helps connect Duke innovations with industry, entrepreneurial management, investors, and other resources to develop the partnerships necessary to create value and benefit to society.…
Digital Innovations Authorship
By Dinesh Divakaran, Director, Digital Innovations As digitization, automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning become more prevalent in research and academic institutions, more innovators are filing invention disclosures relating to software and copyrightable-based innovations. Seeking…
TTO Strategic Communication Tactics with VCs
Natasha Azar, University Relations Manager, OUP Dec 3, 2020 8 min read As a VC firm partnered with over 100 universities, we get the question from Tech Transfer Offices (TTOs) all the time — how can…
Duke’s digital innovation team on how to build a collaboration road map
Duke’s Dinesh Divakaran discusses the challenges of partnerships between academic medical centers and digital health companies. Within the last decade we’ve seen an uptick in collaboration efforts between academic medical centers (AMC) and digital health…
Tech Transfer Fellows: Powering the Commercialization Engine for Duke Innovations
By Shweta Krishnan, Assistant Director, Life Sciences Rachel Newcomb is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology. She is working in the Alvarez Lab studying the effects of whole-genome duplication…
Protecting Your Software Ideas: to Copyright or to Patent
By David Chang Villacreses, Assistant Director, Digital Innovations Software-related inventions are becoming increasingly popular due in part through the development of new technologies such as machine learning algorithms, mobile applications, and open source implementations. As…
Crossing the Valley of Death: Tech Transfer Marketing
By Alex Mullins, Technology Marketing Associate In the field of technology transfer, we often talk about the valley of death between academic research and the commercialization of technology. This dreaded gap occurs after a researcher…
The Indemnification Clause: What You Need to Know
By Eric Wagner, Director, Legal Affairs Indemnification. A big word that doesn’t frequently come up in everyday conversation. Unless, of course, you are a transactional attorney or a technology transfer professional. Indemnification is a…
Show Me the Money
Breaking Down the Royalty Distribution for Licensed Inventions by Mitch Dozier, Director of Operations & Finance, OTC So, your novel idea is a success–congratulations! Now that the agreement is generating or will generate revenue, you’re…