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 –

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