We’re looking forward to sharing information with you about our University, office, technologies and profession and hopefully spur some interesting conversations.
First a little background – our role is to facilitate the transfer of new ideas and inventions arising out of our activities at the university related to teaching, research, and patient care to industry. This complements the University’s mission to 1) provide a trained workforce, 2) improve the world’s knowledge base, and 3) make people healthier through our activities to bring new products to market.
So many of our goals and initiatives center around creating long-term success through a continued focus on and expansion of our product pipeline. The arrival of a new product to the market is both exciting and the ultimate validation for any technology and additionally assures public benefit. To date Emory has had more than 30 products reach the market. At some point in the near future we hope to share with you our next success.
Nationally technology transfer is being scrutinized, due to economic and political pressures, at Emory we strive to be viewed as one of the best programs in the country. To this end we recently embarked on a multiphase initiative to reinvent technology management here. Our purpose is to identify new and better ways to manage technology with the goal of achieving a greater impact. We will be sharing some of those activities with you here.
Finally we’ll also be sharing with you expertise, experience, and stories from our terrific group of people. In particular, you’ll be hearing from our in-house patent group affectionately referred to as the Emory Patent Group as well as from our intern program.
To kick things off we’ll have a post shortly from our Executive Director, Todd Sherer – “Reflections on my year as AUTM President.”