Commercializing Science and Technology

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Commercialising Science & Technology helps you to understand and master the entrepreneurial process of turning science into products and products into businesses. University labs and corporate R&D department increasingly rely on professionals that help bridging the gap between science production (conference presentations, scientific publications, and patents) and commercial value creation (revenues, funding for scientific and applied research). Not only corporate research labs, also academic research groups increasingly need to be able to legitimize how their research might ultimately result in economic activity. For example, obtaining a research grant from public sponsors is (partially) dependent on the researchers’ ability to explain the commercialization of the scientific insights that they seek to produce. In addition, industry-university collaboration has become more intense. As a result, researchers need to understand how their work relates to the functioning of companies. In this course you start building an understanding for the bridging of science to business. It provides insight in technology transfer and licensing as well as an understanding of the dynamics of science production and deployment. In addition, the course will provide insights into the characteristics of an “entrepreneurial spirit” and students will experience to what extent they themselves have an “entrepreneurial spirit”.