Do you want to know about taking your invention from the research lab to market?
Are you interested in learning about different types of Intellectual Property?
Would you like to find additional sources of innovation funding?
Are you interested in turning your research into a successful business?
Attendees will hear about the innovation management and commercialization process at Texas State, and the different types of intellectual property (e.g. patents, copyrights, trademarks, and/or trade secrets) that they can utilize to protect and commercialize their inventions.
Attendees will also learn about how they can participate in Texas State’s new Faculty Innovation Accelerator Program (FIAP) and apply for internal funding up to $11,000 to transition their research. Attendees will learn about the FIAP curriculum, featuring a) National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) training to identify novel commercial applications for an idea or technology, and b) additional training from experts in commercializing intellectual property.
Presented by:
Dr. Yatin Karpe, Assistant Vice President for Innovation & Commercialization
Dr. Frank Amini, Attorney at Law (Outside Patent Counsel), Shackelford, McKinley & Norton, LLP
Dr. J. R. Minifie, Professor, Entrepreneurship, Director, TXST Faculty Innovation Accelerator Program, Co-PI TXST I-Corps Site for Entrepreneurship
Weston Waldo, National I-Corps Facilitator Consultant
