Colloquium Details
Commercializing Innovation: Transferring Technologies from University to the Marketplace
Author: | Heather Stafford Assistant Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Business Oregon |
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Date: | September 24, 2015 |
Time: | 15:30 |
Location: | 220 Deschutes |
Abstract
Heather will discuss the state’s strategies to cultivate an environment of innovation that leads to entrepreneurship, where sources of startup capital are plentiful. The focus for the University of Oregon CIS conversation is more around the innovation side of that equation, exploring funding for R&D and early stage commercialization through the federal SBIR/STTR, STEM/CTE initiatives, industry matching programs, seed funds and angel investing.
Biography
Heather Stafford is Assistant Director of Innovation at Business Oregon, the state's economic development agency. Business Oregon's Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Division is dedicated to growing new businesses and industries in Oregon by building a more cohesive and effective entrepreneurial ecosystem. The office works to build a strategy that is inclusive of the state's incubators and accelerators, Oregon Inc. signature research centers and initiatives, universities, private industry, and rural Oregon.