Facilitating Technology

Entrepreneurship
at Northeastern University
School of Technological Entrepreneurship (STE) Background

 Multidisciplinary School
 UG minor offered to all colleges
 MS in Technological Entrepreneurship
 Certificate in Technological Entrepreneurship
 On-line MS in Technological Commercialization
 Team taught courses
 Educational Approach

 Educational program focused at the

intersection of technology and business
 Cross-disciplinary research focused on
producing results that are relevant to the start-
up environment and that inform our course
materials.
 Intense experiential component focused on
creating as real an entrepreneurial experience
as possible
 Facilitate Technology
Commercialization?
 Desired Aspects
• University wide – able to cross college
boundaries
• Multi-disciplinary
• Practical - relevant
 We have the opportunity to address a
fundamental Global need to accelerate
commercialization and enhance innovation
at universities

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 STE I-cubators
Implementing the new
Paradigm for Entrepreneurial
Education and Technology
Transfer
 Innovation Timelines
Path since Bayh
Dole

Technology Transfer Product Development

Research

Translational Research (Product Development) Product Development

Faculty
Interest
Innovation Gap

Research License Product

Patent License
Idea & Investment Sales

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 I-cubator Organizational Structure
NU Technical I-cubator Director
Center

Entrepreneur/CEO
Project leader

CTO Pool of Mentors

(Faculty Member) (Industry Experts) Virtual
company
(one of many)
STE Undergrad Post-docs and
and Grad Students Faculty

Grad Students from

Tech Colleges
 Centers @ Northeastern
 Antimicrobial Discovery Center  Electronic Materials Research Institute
(eMRI)
 Barnett Institute of Chemical and
Biological Analysis  Institute for Complex Scientific Software
(ICSS)
 Center for Advance Microgravity Materials
Processing (CAMMP)  Institute for Information Assurance
 Center for Communications and Digital  Institute for Network and Pervasive
Signal Processing (CDSP) Computing
 Center for Drug Discovery  Marine Science Center
 Center for High Rate Nanomanufacturing
 Center for Interdisciplinary Research on
Complex Systems (CIRCS)
 Center for Microcontamination Control
 Center for Microwave Magnetic Materials
and Integrated Circuits (CM3IC)
 Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
and Nanomedicine
 Center for Subsurface Sensing and
Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)
 Process flow and academic integration

Industry Ideas Spin-out

Venture
Partners

Idea
Faculty Ideas Project B-Plan
Selection
Committee Leading to prototype Spin-in
Industry
Partners
Student Ideas
1yr Spin-out

Grad Student Lifetimes

Undergrad Student Lifetimes

 Examples

 Example I-  Example Projects

cubators
 HTPerformance (
 Digital Media www.htperformance.net)

 Software and Systems  Vizardz (www.vizardz.com

)
 Micro-electro mechanical
systems  Mobilaurus (
mobilaurus.com )
 BioTech
 280TV (www.280tv.com )
Visit the School of Technological Entrepreneurship

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