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Technogenesis® Annual Research and Entrepreneurship Day will be held on May 8, 2009 at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. Featured keynote speakers Matthew Clark (DOC 11.3 KB), Department of Homeland Security’s University Programs Director, David S. Rose (DOC 11.7 KB), Angelsoft’s Chairman and CEO, and Kelly Miller (DOC 11.3 KB), Chief Information Officer at NSA, will highlight topics on emerging leading-edge technology-to-market commercialization.
Stevens Institute of Technology, a hotbed of technological innovation, showcases Research and Entrepreneurship Day for nascent academic technologies that frequently seed profitable start-up companies and defense needs. Industry, venture capital, and government representatives are expected to attend seeking to exploit opportunities for new ideas and partnership.
Christos Christodoulatos, Associate Provost and Director of the Office for Academic Entrepreneurship, reports “Research and Entrepreneurship Day offers an educational frontier where faculty, students and industry can jointly explore innovative research.” “It is more than technology transfer,” comments Christodoulatos. “It’s part of Stevens’ educational experience creating a climate of innovation and enterprise across campus.” The Associate Provost works with faculty across departments and schools to promote Technogenesis®.
 This year the major research clusters are presented along with our two national centers, the National Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce and Coastal Environments and the Systems Engineering Research Center. Research and Entrepreneurship Day attendees can participate in lively discussions with research faculty and enjoy technology demonstrations, tours of Stevens Research Centers, and the technology pitch Olympics from our student-entrepreneurs.
Stevens Institute of Technology’s approach to entrepreneurship has fostered several spin-off companies in environmental, medical, security, and sensing technology. Current start-ups include SPOC, Inc., a pain management system; Attilla Technologies, LLC, an intelligent multi-network radio-router; InSteam Media, LLC, an embedded interactive digital advertising system; and Predator Vision, LLC, a multi-spectral security camera that combines thermal sensitivity and digital resolution. Two environmental spin-offs, Hydroglobe and PlasmaSol, have respectively commercialized arsenic absorption and disinfection technology.
Click here for your personal invitation (PDF 306K) to Technogenesis® Research and Entrepreneurship Day.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration among business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriching environment of the Institute. Stevens’ model for technology commercialization in academia, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
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Stevens Inventors Handbook is a definitive IP resource for university inventors seeking patents for original inventions. The patent guide includes steps to IP searching and invention disclosure reporting.
 Hoboken, NJ April 14, 2009 -- Stevens Institute of Technology released unprecedented on-line intellectual property patent guidelines for student and faculty inventions. Stevens Inventors Handbook, a resource for new inventors to aid in technology transfer, is published through the Office of Academic Entrepreneurship as an informative guide for obtaining an IP patent.
Stevens Institute of Technology, a hotbed of technology innovation, fosters numerous spin-off companies in environmental, medical, security, and sensing technology. Innovative university research at Stevens is frequently nurtured in partnership with government and industry sponsors.
The Stevens Inventors Handbook features:
- Workings of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Identifying intellectual property categories
- Steps for submitting a patent
- Tips on patent searching
- Advice for disclosure reporting
- Guidelines to start a formal review
David Peacock, Director of Intellectual Property Management, Office of Academic Entrepreneurship (OAE), reports “The anticipated release of the Stevens Inventors Handbook offers more than a quick internet resource where students and faculty can jointly explore patent processes.” Comments Peacock, “The Handbook gives new inventors unprecedented opportunity to manage their innovations and succeed in a highly-competitive global environment among universities.”
The release of Stevens Inventors Handbook coincides with President Raveche’s announcement to enlarge the Institute’s standing among the world’s leading technological research universities. Supporting this objective, OAE developed several helpful IP processes in technology transfer highlighted in the Inventors Handbook. Additionally, OAE offers IP/Patent Awareness Training Seminars to faculty and research staff members. For more information, contact David Peacock at dpeacock@stevens.edu.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu. |
