Pitfalls When Speaking with Industry
Great news – a company has asked to set up an introductory meeting to hear more about your invention! These meetings are great opportunities to take steps towards bringing your technology to market through a…
Different Roads to Translation
From left to right: Robin Rasor, Matthew Becker, PhD, Arif kamal, MD, MBA, Howard Levinson, MD, Stefan Roberts, PhD. By Aliza Inbari The Duke Office for Translation and Commercialization receives about 400 invention disclosures…
International Women’s Day 2022: Spotlighting Innovative OTC Fellows
OTC Fellows are working every day to change the world through innovations. Not only do they work on their PhD theses to explore new scientific frontiers, they also move novel technologies from the bench out…
Ed Pagani Named Executive Director for Duke External Partnerships
DURHAM, N.C., March 1, 2021 — Ed Pagani, PhD, a longtime industry and technology transfer executive from Michigan, will join Duke University’s Office for Research & Innovation as the first executive director of the Office…
Interested in Entrepreneurship? Come Talk to Us
Meet our New Director of Duke New Ventures: Jeff Welch, PhD By Aliza Inbari Jeff Welch returns to Duke after a long career as a life science and business development executive. In May 2021, he…
New Small Business Grant Funds Available for North Carolina Technology Companies
One North Carolina Small Business Program to include SBIR/STTR pre-application support for the first time in more than a decade. NC Department of Commerce, January 20, 22 — Applications are now being accepted for a…
The Role of a University Technology Transfer Office in Moving Great Ideas Forward
“You may have great technology, but if you don’t have the right talent or the right team, it’s hard to get the investment, certainly from venture firms. We spend a lot of time trying to…
New Startup Support Structures Yield Many Success Stories
Duke ECE Magazine, OCTOBER 8, 2021 | KEN KINGERY Three recent Duke ECE startup companies highlight the many ways Duke Engineering is making entrepreneurship easier than ever before As soon as the prototype was…
Bringing Inventions to the Market
By Aliza Inbari Universities are great innovation incubators. Google, flu shots, vaccines, GPS, and many other inventions were born in university labs around the world and impact our lives every day. The Duke Office…