Text Box: This course is designed to enable teams of students to successfully complete the facets of technology transfer. Students will be able to proceed through the phases of technology transfer to include identifying, assessing, marketing, and determine licensing of innovations. Students will examine technology overviews prepared by participating research labs and select one invention to take through the technology transfer cycle. Class sessions will be divided into two segments: a lecture on specific phases of technology transfer by HCC instructors and guest speakers; and full-class discussions of each team’s project as it relates to the lecture. Each team will evaluate a new invention made at a regional US Government Laboratory, prepare a written technology assessment report and present its findings as the capstone component of the course. Upon completion of this course the student will be able to: Describe and discuss the basics of technology transfer including inventions, patents and technology marketing and licensing. Assess the commercial viability of a new invention developed from one of the regions US Government Laboratories. Work in a team environment and develop a written assessment report of the invention. Present findings and recommendations at an open event attended by students, researchers, prospective entrepreneurs, local business representatives and technology transfer experts. Analyze career options in science, technology, research and business. Exhibit beginning skills required to work in an innovative enterprise. Text Box: New COURSE @ Howard Community College ENTR- 915 “Technology Transfer from Invention to Marketplace” Text Box: Page #

Do you have a GREAT IDEA for an INVENTION?

4-Tomorrow

It is wonderful that you have a good idea to add to the millions of products that are being bought and sold every day. It’s ideas like yours that make our world what it is today. You will most likely find that creating the idea is the easy part. The protecting, building, and marketing it will be the long drawn-out and expensive parts of bringing it to market. People like you with innovative ideas prompted us to create the 4-Tomorrow section in the Newsletter. Here is a neat idea and innovation from the past. It is intended to stimulate NEW ideas or for simple amusement.

 In 1928 Otto Rohwedder invented a machine that both sliced and wrapped bread. He had been working at perfecting his idea for 16 years because he knew that sliced bread went stale quickly. Within 5 years of this invention, most of the bread in the U.S. came sliced.

 
Text Box: Mom Ready To Buy Cristina Sovereign, BMGT-145 Spring 2006 I am a stay at home mom. This “business” that I work in requires me to protect my child from harm, to listen to her and to fulfill her physical and emotional needs. My job could be improved if certain technological innovations could be brought to market. After dinner I finished squeezing my daughter Jodie into her pajamas. She started rhythmically bouncing on her rear end, whining and grimacing. There is nothing more frustrating than trying to figure out what a fussy toddler needs when they are unable to speak more than a few words of intelligible English! What on earth does she want?? Make me a device to translate her brain signals into words I can understand! This is just one product that I look forward to seeing in the future. Technology could greatly enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of my mothering “business”. I hope some bright entrepreneur takes note and brings these innovation to market.