Now in its sixth year, the Research Commercialization Introductory Course – a free webinar series presented by the US-based National Council of Entrepreneurial Technology Transfer (NCET2) – gives participants an overview of what it takes to translate research into market-ready devices, and uses online tools to deliver its message worldwide.

“The course is open to anyone anywhere,” Clara Asmail, senior technical advisor at the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership, told TMR+.

Asmail is one of seven co-organizers and moderators heading up the program this year, which includes Steve Ferguson, deputy director, Licensing & Entrepreneurship Office of Technology Transfer at the National Institutes of Health; Ben Schrag, program director within the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Engineering; and Tony Stanco, executive director of NCET2.

The lectures run from November 14 to December 12, 2013, and cover the following topics –

Patents
The importance of commercializing research
Copyright, trademarks and trade secrets
Employment and consulting agreements
Tech transfer and licensing agreements
Small business innovation research (SBIR) grants
Introduction to early stage funding
Introduction to structuring and leading the research intensive company
Moving from R&D to manufacturing
View from the trenches: applying what you’ve learned

Each session is divided into presentation (60 mins) and Q&A (30 mins) segments.

“The course is the brainchild of Steve Ferguson,” Asmail explained. “He and Tony Stanco realized that there was a need within the university communities to train scientists who wanted to go the entrepreneurial route.”

To sign up, simply click the register button on the Research Commercialization and SBIR Center homepage.

If you miss any of the lectures, they’ll be a video recording of each session posted online the next day to allow you to catch-up.

Research commercialization course available online from November 14 http://t.co/kgOlGkkP2N

— Mariola Kulawiec (@MKulawiec) November 11, 2013