Thank you for your attendance and support of our "Innovations in..." seminars!  Please visit this page again in late September 2013 to learn what exciting topics we have planned for the Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Series!

Join the Office for Research Partnerships and Commercialization (ORPC) to explore the use and commercialization of University innovations across all disciplines.

The Innovation Catalyst Seminar Series, hosted monthly during the academic year, discusses relevant issues related to commercializing UNH’s innovations, including current and emerging best practices on campus.  

The seminars are open to all and designed to be a meeting place for innovators, entrepreneurs, service providers, and anyone else interested in how the university innovations of today represent the information and opportunities of tomorrow.    

Fall 2012/Spring 2013 

Innovation Catalyst Seminar Series     

This year, our theme is "Innovations in..." and we will invite industry experts to discuss business segments important to the State of New Hampshire and opportunities for growth within those segments.  

Innovations in...Medical Devices

Suzanne Foster, Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Energy Division at Medtronic Advanced Energy, kicked off our seminar series with a presentation on Innovations in Medical Devices. View a video of Suzanne's presentation below:  

Innovations in...Materials Science

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Continuing our seminar series theme, "Innovations in...", will be Brian Coffenberry, SVP of Strategic Planning & Business Development for Albany Engineered Composites, to speak on Innovations in Materials Science. Brian will speak about how Albany Engineered Composites brings their products to market, the challenges and successes the company has faced as they've grown, the current focus of Albany Engineered Composites as they look to the future of materials science, and the most pressing market needs for innovative solutions in materials science. View the video of Brian's presentation below:

Innovations in...Agricultural Biotechnology 

In a special visit to the UNH campus, Joe Emling, Director, Specialty Agriculture & Science, Ingredion Incorporated (Indianapolis, IN), will speak on "Successful Commercialization of Agricultural Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges in the Global Food Economy."  

From the first domestication of crops and livestock to today's use of modern biotechnology, agricultural innovation has impacted human health, environmental quality, and economic prosperity. In our globalized economy, advances are influenced by consumer attitudes, government regulation, investor expectations, sustainability, and other factors. The successful innovator balances these influences to create lasting value from breakthrough advances in agricultural technologies and processes. 

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 Innovations in...Crowdfunding 

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Innovations in...Mobile App Development 

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Innovations in...Drug Discovery

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Join us for a special visit from Sanjeev Thohan, Senior Research Fellow in Preclinical Sciences/Translational Sciences at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Cambridge, MA.  

 

Innovations in...Lean Startups 

Video and slides from this presentation coming soon...

What will you learn?

The concept of the "Lean Startup" has taken the world by storm and is used across the country by tens of thousands of innovators looking to improve the odds that their company can be successful. The Lean methodology is highly applicable to ideas in the high technology, web, app, and university technology fields. This session will go over the basics of the Lean Startup concept and how it’s being applied on and off campus to create better companies, faster. You will learn the principles of customer development and their application towards creating a Minimum Viable Product.

This event is FREE and open to the public.  

Please stay for beer and networking from 5:00-7:00PM (make sure to review the instructions for parking at UNH on our registration page).