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The AI-Enabled TTO
Posted March 28, 2024 By: Reda El Alami On March 21st, Foresight attended an AUTM webinar called “The AI Enabled TTO.” The presenters were Marc Sedan & John Kearney of NYU and Declan Weldon from the University of Glasgow. These presenters provided background information on what AI is, how to implement it in your workplace, the […]
ChatGPT is an Ally in Commercialization Efforts
Posted May 12, 2023 By: Reda El Alami On May 11th Foresight attended the AUTM webinar “Generative AI has arrived : Essential Knowledge for TTOs”. The presenters were Dray McFarlane and Thomas Altman, CEOs from the company Tasio. The presenters provided history on AI, and how AI is constantly evolving. AI can be used in […]
Grant writing is less about the writing than the research
Posted April 27, 2023 By: Reda El Alami On April 13th, Foresight Science & Technology attended an AUTM Live webinar called TTOs Can be PIs Too: Competitive Grant Application and Management. It was led by Dr. Eva Garland, Dr. Dana Upton, Jennifer Webster, and Ian McClure. This webinar focused on Federal Grant Opportunities, specifically how […]
Team Compositions Unpacked and Clarified
Posted November 14, 2022 By: Reda El Alami On Oct. 27, 2022 – Foresight attended the PDMA webinar ‘Scatterbrains: Teams find innovation by thinking differently’ by Richard Perez. The webinar consisted of examples and graphs of the make-up of teams at fortune 100 companies and how well they work together. Mr. Perez unpacked and analyzed […]
FLC Virtual Meeting- Successful and Engaging in Remote Era
Posted April 13, 2021 By: Reda El Alami On April 6 – 8, 2021 Foresight Science & Technology attended the 2021 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) National Meeting which was held in a virtual format. In an increasingly connected, yet remote era the virtual conference was a pleasant and refreshing take on bringing minds together to […]
The rundown on AUTM Asia 2019
Posted November 14, 2019 By: Konstantin Izvolsky On November 5-7, 2019 Foresight Science & Technology attended AUTM Asia-2019 conference in Jerusalem, Israel. This conference provided a great platform for technology transfer professionals from Asia to share the best practices and address the challenges related to the transfer of technologies from the university laboratories to the […]
Demystifying Open Innovation- PDMA Webcast
Posted July 3, 2019 By: Reda El Alami On June 20th, 2019 Foresight attended the PDMA webinar Demystifying Open Innovation: Insights from Industry. The agenda consisted of open innovation readiness assessments, roadmaps, and a very informative case study. In order to get the audience on the same page, Dr. Wayne Fisher, Founder of Rockdale Innovation, defined […]
Thinking Like “Shark Tank”
Posted on April 1, 2019 By: Norton Kaplan I suggest viewing “Shark Tank” https://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank occasionally to pick up a few hints on how to evaluate and strategize business opportunities and entrepreneur tactics. Most importantly I suggest paying attention to the “Shark Tank” inventor panel members and their questions and comments. I find that each […]
Foresight Trains University on Commercialization
On December 13 and 14, 2018 Foresight’s Dr. Konstantin Izvolsky, Director of Consulting and Training, and Mr. Norton Kaplan, President, visited the University of South Dakota GEAR Center to provide Commercialization 101 (COMM 101) training to technology transfer office (TTO) staff, faculty, and graduate students. Foresight’s COMM 101 Course is designed to target the broad […]
Technology Transfer and Knowledge Sharing in the Post-Recession Global Economy
By: Dr. Phyllis Speser, Foresight Founder Technology transfer/knowledge sharing are skating along the edge of a cliff. Read the mission statement of the Office of Technology Transfer at the Upstate Medical University of the State University of New York: “The mission of OTT is to promote the transfer of Upstate technology for society’s use and […]