Tag: Commercialization

Foresight Exhibit at AUTM 2024

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Foresight Science & Technology will be exhibiting at the AUTM Annual Meeting in San Diego on February 18-21, 2024. For those who don’t know, the AUTM Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of Tech Transfer Pros. At this event, attendees will have the opportunity to get inspired, make connections, and learn from some of the greatest leaders in the field. Want to know more? Click here. Also, if you’re attending, be sure to stop by booth 517 to learn more about our Market Assessments and SBIR Services!

FLC Virtual Meeting- Successful and Engaging in Remote Era

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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 learn interesting material from industry experts in an inviting format.

The three-day event consisted of several concurring sessions covering topics from ‘T2 for beginners’ to ‘Investment crowdfunding as a tool for T2 initiatives’ and aside from the occasional glitch, the event was well put together and the sessions were properly paced with ample time to answer key questions at the end from attendees.

Hearing from industry leaders and learning trends in specific regions of the country and various labs really made the content interesting as I was not aware that Iowa was seeking to diversify its investments from agriculture to high tech/fin tech; or that North Dakota was becoming a hub for tech funding. Hearing from investors that life science investments are on the rise due to the high risk and extremely high reward on the exit and learning that there is a finite market for tech buyers (ex: phones/computers) but everyone is at one time or another a buyer/user of life science technologies excites investors and compels them to consider riskier investments.

All things considered, the three-day virtual conference was very well done and I would gladly attend any other FLC virtual events in the future.

Foresight Trains University on Commercialization

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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 audiences with the various levels of technology commercialization experience and help TTO staff, faculties and young entrepreneurs to better assess and market the technologies originating in the university laboratories from the conceptual stage to commercialization. The COMM 101 training assists in technology evaluation and identification of commercially viable technologies, defining the value proposition and appropriate application, interactions with potential commercialization partners.

The training was well received by the USD audience. Over two days, participants were actively engaged in discussions covering various aspects of technology commercialization making it interactive and fun experience. Foresight team wishes all the best to out USD friends and is looking forward to providing more commercialization support to USD and other universities in the future!

EPA SBIR Phase I Kick-Off Meeting

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On Thursday November 29, 2018 the EPA SBIR hosted their annual Phase I Kick-Off Meeting in Washington, DC, highlighting the 17 Small Businesses that have been awarded up to $100,000 each. The technologies being developed focus on environmental issues that affect air, soil and water quality as well as some health-related concerns. A listing of the companies and technologies may be found on the EPA SBIR website.

Presentations provided by April Richards, EPA SBIR Program Manager, Andrew Wheeler, EPA Acting Administrator, and others emphasized the importance of commercialization and the value of each of the companies participating. A Keynote Panel conducted a discussion on “Paths to Commercialization” as the theme of the meeting. Dr. Konstantin Izvolsky, E. Wayne Turnblom, and Norton Kaplan, all commercialization experts for Foresight Science & Technology provided one-on-one interviews with each awardee to drive the commercialization opportunities and to begin formulating market entry strategies. From beginning to end, the commercialization theme was the driving force – to not only keep pace with the growing economy but to also contribute to it in many varying and unique ways.

Pictured (left to right): Norton Kaplan, E.Wayne Turnblom, Dr. Konstantin Izvolsky