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Entrepreneurship Educationand

Technology Commercialization

Tom Ermolovich

Visiting Assistant Professor

School of Technological Entrepreneurship

College of Professional Studies

[email protected]

Phone: 617-508-1800

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How do define entrepreneurship?

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Webster:

“One who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.”

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Our definition:

“One who starts a business.”

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Our definition:

“One who starts a business.”

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Technology

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Analytical Artistic

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Academic Experiential

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Program Concept

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I-cubator

Academic courses

Idea

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Innovation Timelines

Research

Product Development

PatentLicense

& InvestmentProduct

SalesResearch

Idea

Technology Transfer Product Development

License

Development

Innovation Gap

FacultyInterest

Traditional Path since Bayh

Dole

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I-cubator Process Flow

Industrial Ideas

Faculty Ideas

MTTC

NU TTO

Student Ideas

Idea

Selection

Committee

Project

Team

Business Plan

& Prototype

Venture

Partners

Industry

Partners

Spin-out

Spin-out

Spin-in

Opportunity

Assessment

Product Requirements

& Prototype

Customer

Validation

Business Plan

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Investor Presentation

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Some cool projects underway

• Bio-sensing chip

• Stroke rehabilitation device

• Locally Heard

• Rapid prototype metal castings

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Two Master’s Programs

• Master of Science in Technology Entrepreneurship

•www.neu.edu/ste

• Master of Science in Technology Commercialization

•www.neu.edu/cps/mstc

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On-the-ground

Online

Recent grads

Mid-career

MSTE

MSTC

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Questions?

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