[CCoE Notice] Technology Commercialization Brown Bag

[Lewis, Lindsay R]

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Technology Commercialization Brown Bag
sponsored by the
UH Center for Industrial Partnerships

TAKING INVENTIONS
TO THE MARKETPLACE
By Dan Watkins, PhD
Managing Director, DFJ Mercury

Hosted by Emmanuelle Schuler, PhD
Director, Center for Industrial Partnerships

Wednesday, June 13, 2012
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Library

While inventions create many business opportunities, they only bear fruit after they have been advanced to a point where they are ready to be accepted and needed by the markets. This transition from the lab to the marketplace is complex and involves partners, the least of which are investors. Dr. Dan Watkins, Managing Director at DFJ Mercury, a seed and startup venture capital firm, will discuss how to best handle this process and will provide tips to inventors.

Open to UH faculty, staff, and students. Feel free to circulate this announcement among the UH community. No cost to attend.

About Dan Watkins
Dan's focus is commercialization of early stage physical sciences and life sciences technologies that originate from research universities and regional technology incubators. Prior to co-founding DFJ Mercury, he was the founder of A3 Associates, a Houston-based venture firm focused on seed-stage investments in university technology transfer opportunities. In this capacity, Dan was instrumental in starting DNAtrix (UT M.D. Anderson), and Nanospectra Biosciences (Rice University).

Dan received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

About the Center for Industrial Partnerships
The CIP is committed to growing UH research enterprise and to disseminating knowledge and best practices in innovation and research commercialization. The CIP is part of the Division of Research at the University of Houston.

Emmanuelle Schuler, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Industrial Partnerships
Division of Research
University of Houston
A Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university
713-743-9155
eschuler at uh.edu<mailto:eschuler at uh.edu>


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