Use our training resources to learn and grow! Need to know how to protect your new idea, translate your technology and maximize the potential of your innovation? Throughout the year, Pathways offers on-demand and live seminars, cohort-based workshops as well as one-on-one coaching on a variety of topics to guide innovators. If you have a question and are looking for mentorship you can visit:
In this inspiring UF Innovate I Pathways Insights seminar, Maximizing the Potential of Your Innovations, Dr. Benjamin Lok UF CISE Professor and co-founder of Shadow Health Inc, shares his insights on how he reached beyond his lab and maximized the potential of his innovation and how you can too!
Do you know how to protect your ideas and create value through intellectual property (IP)? Those completing this 2 half-day workshop held every October can get a digital badge/certificate from UF’s Provost Office. With breakout small group discussions and expert advice from the IP attorneys at Wolf, Greenfield and Sacks and the team at UF Innovate, this hands-on training, open to all UF innovators, provides the intellectual property basics to help you create impact through innovation. Dates and registration information will be announced in the UF Innovate I Pathways newsletter and website.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has a wealth of ongoing free virtual intellectual property training and resources for innovators and entrepreneurs.
Visit the University of Florida Education Portal to access free on-demand technology transfer training and learn how innovative technologies are commercialized through technology evaluation, patent and copyright protection, marketing, licensing in different fields. You can also learn about terms in various contracts that protect intellectual property including research collaborations, confidentiality and material transfer agreements as well as build skills to pursue an internship or a career in technology transfer or business development.
UF Innovate has collaborated with AUTM the leading organization supporting academic technology transfer to bring you these 200+ hours of AUTM technology transfer meeting and webinar recordings. If you need suggestions email us.
You can log into the AUTM University of Florida Education portal created by AUTM for the UF Campus Community anytime, search for topics and watch the webinars at your convenience on a UF network.
NSF I Corps customer discovery training prepares scientists and engineers to extend their reach beyond the laboratory, determine the commercial potential of their innovation, translate technology and impact society.
This essential experiential cohort-based training for all early-stage academic innovators fosters a mindset of use-inspired research. It helps innovators de-risk their innovation and develop a product that customers will buy. Attend an information session to learn more and enroll in a regional NSF I Corps course.
All faculty, postdocs, students and staff are eligible to apply.
Learn the importance of the business model, team, and what academic innovators can do to advance commercialization. In this UF Innovate Insights seminar Developing an Innovative Idea into a Product serial entrepreneur John Engels who is a co-founder of the successful local startup Axogen Inc., shares his insights on technology development and his experience successfully overcoming commercialization challenges to bring biomedical products to market. John will also discuss how he partnered with UF and academic innovators to develop innovative ideas into products.
How do you present your technology to an investor in 1 minute without a slide deck? Robert Mino one of the UF Innovate Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIRs) will share his insights and practical tips on communicating your technology or startup. Click here to view the recording and put these tips into practice.
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