Spring Technology Commercialization Course:

This course focuses on ways to commercialize and license technology. Topics covered include: the history of technology transfer, the invention process, intellectual property protection, assessing clinical and market potential, developing patent and licensing strategies and fundraising. Students leave the class with a thorough knowledge of the entire process of technology transfer and commercialization. The Technology Commercialization course is team taught by the Creighton Office of Intellectual Resources Management and features an expert guest speaker series. In addition, the course is taught as a lab, with projects based on real bioscience inventions.

Summer Internship:

In between the spring technology commercialization course and the fall bioscience entrepreneurship course, students have an opportunity to complete an 80 hour internship over the summer with local companies. These companies include bioscience startups, technology transfer offices, and law firms. Previous interns have assisted in projects dealing with product development, market analysis, grant proposals, and patenting/licensing agreements. The internship can be for credit and/or pay, based on degree requirements.

Fall Bioscience Entrepreneurship Course:

This course allows students, through a hands-on, interdisciplinary team-based project, to research the viability of, and structure a plan for, commercializing a technology invented by a student or faculty at Creighton or UNMC. This course is research-oriented and requires students to use marketing and science tools as well as interview stakeholders involved in the technology commercialization process, including potential suppliers, customers, distributors, and capital providers. The final output of this course will be a business or licensing plan which scientists can use to raise funds for commercializing their research.