Tailored and targeted lunch-time sessions on science/technology innovation commercialization and entrepreneurhsip for academic departments, student clubs, affinity groups, research centers and professional development programs. Click on the dates for registration info.
To request a customized program for your group, contact Carla Pavone at [email protected]
For science and technology innovators curious about commercialization and entrepreneurship. Perhaps you’re thinking about doing your own startup, or perhaps you’d just like to explore how to bring your innovation closer to real-world impact through commercialization. These sessions are open to students at all levels, postdocs, research scientists and faculty.
Extending the skills and professional networks of doctoral candidates, postdocs/fellows, and junior faculty whose gender, race and/or ethnicity is underrepresented in technology commercialization, but whose research programs have high potential for societal impact through commercialization and/or entrepreneurship.
Seminars for academic and business community innovators regarding emerging and ongoing opportunities to commercialize inventions and/or launch technology/science-driven ventures. Click on the dates for registration info.
University researchers are strongly motivated to bring their breakthrough innovations to market, but lack business expertise. Graduate students at the Carlson School are business-savvy leaders, many of whom are seeking meaningful entrepreneurial experiences. Let's combine these talents to bridge the gap between research and real-world impact. Click on date below to register.
The annual Women Innovators Conference is a professional development summit designed to help female innovators connect the dots between their ideas and achieving a positive, significant impact. This event will inspire, inform, and connect women students, faculty, and business professionals in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) to strengthen and extend the diverse talent pool of women innovators in the Twin Cities.
1:00 - 1:15 Welcome + intro video about keynote speaker
1:15 - 1:45 Keynote opening: "Think Like an Innovator: Act like an Entrepreneur" (20 minutes + 10 minutes of questions) - Angelique Johnson
1:45 - 2:30 Breakouts:
1. Room #1 (40 minutes) - Idea to Impact: Innovators Share Their Journeys
Rui Li - BlueCube Bio
Yingling Fan - Daynamica
Rowan Mahon - Roundtable Rx
Linda Kinkle - Jord bioscience
Moderator: Neela Mollgaard - Launch MN
2. Room #2 (40 minutes) - Inclusivity and Accessibility in Product Design
Rob Wudlick - Abilitech Medical
Elisha Friesema - Synerfuse
Eri O'Diah - Collective.ly Digital
Moderator: Jodi Rebuffoni - Office for Discovery and Translation
2:30 - 3:00 Keynote Closing: TBD
Post-conference activity: Picture a Scientist documentary
This course uses the Lean LaunchPad structured process to learn the initial process of customer development by testing market acceptance of a specific new business concept. Students primarily take this course individually and must have an idea or technology that they are interested in pursuing. The goal of the curse is to teach the process to quickly and efficiently test the value and market fit for a new concept.
The University of Minnesota MIN-Corps program is proud to work with Launch Minnesota, an initiative of MN-DEED, helping you translate your innovation to a fundable, high-growth business. We use the Lean Startup (also called Lean LaunchPad) approach, a structured process to quickly assess and refine business concepts, thus avoiding costly mistakes and accelerating your progress to market launch. Five modules: lean startup intro, product-market fit, customer discovery, pathway to commercialization, and market assessment.
The certificate courses are for academic scientists and technology entrepreneurs exploring the potential commercialization of specific innovations. Academic teams are elegible for $3,000 grants for nontechnical prototyping and customer research, and may qualify for the I-Corps Teams program ($50,000 grant). Nonacademic teams will have done the groundwork necessary for an SBIR or Launch MN grant application, as well as the earliest stages of investor due diligence.
Webinars are open to anyone interested in learning about the Lean Startup process.
The fall Value Proposition Design programs are now underway. Check back for spring programs.