Text Box: Technology Transfer— important component in our entrepreneurial ecosystem Excerpt from “Personal Perspective: HCC Plays Role in Entrepreneurial Ecosystem” by Wayne Swann. Text Box: Today, most new jobs and inventions are generated by small businesses — many by entrepreneurs taking high-risk, high-reward gambles. The nation is now seeing more unstable markets, with short-term product lifecycles and global competition. The U.S. is the model the world emulates in areas such as new business startups, angel and venture capital, technology transfer and business incubators. The Baltimore-Washington corridor has a number of impressive components in its regional entrepreneurial ecosystem. The education components of our regional ecosystem are impressive. Through entrepreneurship programs and the Center for Entrepreneurial & Business Excellence, Howard Community College Text Box: has added a local educational component to Howard County’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Recently, HCC was awarded a three-year, $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnerships Grant and now serves as the lead institution to develop a Technology Assessment Program. One of the key objectives of the grant is to prepare students and prospective entrepreneurs to work in an innovative enterprise. This includes reaching out to high school students to enhance dissemination of entrepreneurship to non-traditional audiences. Another key objective is to provide additional resources to USG laboratories in evaluating innovations and placing technology into new or existing businesses for public benefit. Text Box: The new course ENTR-215 “Technology Transfer: From Invention to Marketplace“ is designed to enable teams of students to successfully complete the facets of technology transfer, from an initial evaluation of a new innovation through to commercialization. To read the complete article by Wayne Swann “Personal Perspective: HCC Plays Role in Entrepreneurial Ecosystem” go to our web site www.inventiontobusiness.com Wayne Swann was the founding director of the Office of Technology Transfer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and is adjunct faculty and instructor of Technology Transfer: From Invention to Marketplace at Howard Community College. He can be reached at wswann@howardcc.edu. Text Box: Inside this issue: Text Box: Our objective is really nothing less than changing the way that higher education prepares engineers and business students to be the inventors and innovators of the next generation. Richard Hill

 Jan. 2007, Volume 3

Funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant No. 0538751

Letters From Our Students

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An Inventor Never Grows UP

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WIN A PRIZE

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Innovative Challenge turned science into reality

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Young Inventor at Work  

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