Emerging Issues in Technology Transfer
Technology Transfer Society (T2S) 26th Annual Conference Program
(Click on Session Theme to See Individual Papers Within That
Session)
7:00 – 8:30pm Opening Buffet Dinner/Reception
Pre-Conference Registration
7:30 – 12:00 noon Registration
7:30 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 8:35 Welcoming Address and Introduction to the Workshop:
Professor
Donald Siegel, President-Elect, T2S, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
8:35 – 9:15 Plenary Session-Keynote Speaker:
Professor
Thomas J. Allen,
Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Engineering
Systems, MIT
9:30 – 11:00 Concurrent Sessions
Theme: “Trends in Government, University, and Industry Technology Transfer”
Chair: Dr. Sally Rood,
Private Consultant and Adjunct Professor,
Virginia Tech
University (former President of T2S)
Theme: “The Creation of Start-up
Firms at Public Research Institutions-Part I”
Chair:
Professor Mike Wright,
University of Nottingham
Theme:
“The Creation of Start-up Firms at Public Research Institutions-Part II”
Chair:
Dr. Andy Lockett,
University of Nottingham
11:00 –11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:45 Concurrent Sessions
Theme: “Evaluating the Small Business Innovation Research Program”
Chair: Dr.
Charles Wessner, National Academy of Sciences
Theme: “The Creation of Start-up
Firms at Public Research Institutions-Part III”
Chair: Professor
Michael Ensley, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
Theme: “The Creation of Start-up
Firms at Public Research Institutions-Part IV”
Chair: Professor
Donald Siegel, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
1:00 – 2:15 Luncheon-Keynote Speaker:
Dr.
Russell Bessette, Executive Director, New York State Office of Science,
Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR)
2:15 – 3:45 Concurrent Sessions:
Theme: “Transportation Technology Transfer: Transcending Boundaries and
Chair: Dr.
O. A. Elrahman, New York State
Department of Transportation,
R&D Bureau
Theme: “Empirical Evidence on
Knowledge Flows from Research
Chair:
Professor Isaac Ehrlich,
University at Buffalo
Theme: “Empirical Evidence on
Knowledge Flows from Research
Chair: Professor David Audretsch, Indiana University and Max Planck Institute
3:45 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 6:00 Concurrent Sessions:
Theme: “Technology Transfer: Finding the Customer”
Chair: Dr. Phyl Speser, Foresight Science & Technology Incorporated
Theme: “University-Based Technology Initiatives”
Chair: Professor Albert Link,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
ADJOURN
9:00 – 10:30 Concurrent Sessions
Theme: “Technology
Transfer at NSF Centers: Strategies Employed by
ERC and STC Technology Transfer Agents”
Chair: Professor Barry
Bozeman, Georgia Tech
University
Theme: “Models of Technology
Transfer”
Chair: Sue Patow, University of Minnesota (former President of T2S)
Theme: “Innovation,
Entrepreneurship, and Technology Transfer”
Chair: Professor
Denis Gray, North Carolina State University
Special Meeting of Research Team Evaluating the SBIR
Program
(open to the public-will meet from 9:30 to
12:30)
Chair: Dr.
Charles Wessner, National Academy of Sciences
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30 Concurrent Sessions
Theme: “University Technology Transfer”
Chair: Professor Jorge Niosi, University
of Quebec at
Theme: “University Technology Transfer: Legal and Managerial Issues”
Chair: Jerry McGuire, University
of North Carolina at Greensboro
Theme: “Emerging Issues in Technology Transfer”
Chair: Professor Elias G.
Carayannis,
George Washington University
12:30 – 2:00 T2S Board Meeting