Faculty Offered Overview of Intellectual Property Development Process
 
By Dana Prifti, Media Relations Writing Intern

UNH will introduce faculty to the intellectual property development process at "An Evening with UNH Entrepreneurial Faculty Scholars" Wednesday, Nov. 2.

The program will be held in the Piscataqua Room, Holloway Commons at 5 p.m. It is being sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Public Service, the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, and the Whittemore School of Business and Economics.

"UNH continues to mature as a research enterprise. One elegant
and exciting way to continue this maturation is by developing our
ability to take wonderful ideas, convert them into small companies that become part of the economic fabric of the local or state economy, and then generate and bring back resources to the inventor's research enterprise here in our laboratories and classrooms. Done well and appropriately, this completes the first cycle in a process of technology development and transfer that can result in the continuous development of opportunity and enterprise," said John Aber, vice president for research and public service.

The evening kicks off with a panel discussion of the resources at the university available to assist faculty entrepreneurs. Bob Dalton, program director of the new Office for Research Partnerships and Commercialization, which now oversees intellectual property management, will discuss guiding faculty entrepreneurs through the intellectual property development process. Jeffrey Sohl, professor of entrepreneurship and decision sciences, and director of the Center for Venture Research, will discuss what investors look for in university research commercialization. Michael Merenda, chair of the management department at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics and professor of strategic management and entrepreneurship, will speak about faculty technology commercialization through entrepreneurship programs.

Following the panel discussion, three entrepreneurial faculty scholars, William Hersman, professor of physics and CEO of Xemed; Kevin Short, professor of mathematics and chief technology officer of Chaoticom; and Thomas Laue, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and CEO of Spin Analytical, will discuss their experiences. The evening concludes with an open discussion with all of the night’s speakers.