{"278351":{"#nid":"278351","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Position your Research for Commercial Success","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA four-part innovator series for faculty, postdocs and graduate students\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith research funding decreasing and companies turning to academic research for innovation are you looking for alternative sources of funding? If so OTT\u2019s four-part innovator series is for you!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESESSION 1: Identify industry needs that align with your interests\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMerrick Furst, PhD, Founder\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFlashpoint @ Georgia Tech, (a startup engineering studio)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIdentify industry needs that align with your interests. Companies are looking for inventions that perform better, faster, or cheaper than what is currently available. In this seminar Merrick Furst, PhD, who helps develop and produce technology startup companies, will speak about methods to discover what products are already available, identify unmet needs in the industry, and design experiments to solve them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EComing this Spring\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESESSION 2: Design research aims around commercially-relevant milestones \u003Cbr \/\u003ESESSION 3: Position your research for translational funding\u003Cbr \/\u003ESESSION 4: Commercialize discoveries with the Office of Technology Transfer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor more information go to \u003Ca href=\u0022ott.emory.edu\/about\/innovator.pdf\u0022\u003ESeries Info\u003C\/a\u003E or contact\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:aemyers@emory.edu\u0022\u003E Ashley Myers\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA four-part innovator series for faculty, postdocs and graduate students\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A four-part innovator series for faculty, postdocs and graduate students"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2014-02-24 08:59:53","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:23:06","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-02-27T20:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2014-02-27T21:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-02-27T21:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-02-28 01:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-02-28 02:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-02-28 02:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ott.emory.edu\/about\/innovator.pdf","title":"Series information website"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:aemyers@emory.edu\u0022\u003EAshley Myers\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}