Upcoming event:

Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day 2008

June 3, 2008 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sheraton Boston Hotel  

Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day is an annual celebration of the research undertaken in Massachusetts and its contributions to the Commonwealth's life sciences industry and global healthcare. The day's program will look at the past, the present and the future. How have technologies in Massachusetts impacted our current life sciences industry? What technologies are currently emerging which have the potential to change the industry? And what are the major problems and questions in life sciences that our researchers should be focused on solving?

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About The Center:

The Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center was created in 2004 as a program in the Massachusetts Economic Stimulus Bill. Its goal is to support technology transfer activities from public and private research institutions to companies in Massachusetts. To achieve this goal, the Center works with technology transfer offices at Massachusetts research institutions; faculty, researchers, and students who have commercially promising ideas; and companies across the Commonwealth.

The Center:

• facilitates and accelerates technology transfer between research institutions and Massachusetts companies;
  
• promotes collaboration between research institutions and the Commonwealth's technology industry;
  
• assists in the growth of Massachusetts companies, including startups, by enhancing technological leadership; and
  
• supports regional and statewide economic development priorities.

The Center supports the commercialization of research technologies through a variety of programs:

Expert technology reviews provide opportunities for Massachusetts research institutes to have external industry experts evaluate technologies and give advice regarding their commercial potential.

Studies guided by expert advisors utilize business school students to perform market analyses on the potential and viability of new technologies.

The Center provides mentoring to researchers who believe they have a technology that could serve as the basis of a new company. The process includes the development of a business presentation for an expert board of external reviewers.

Commercialization and Entrepreneurial Education seminars and workshops enable researchers to understand the process of commercializing technologies.

The Life Sciences Partnering and Investment Forum is a half-day program for investors and potential corporate partners to meet with companies formed around technologies developed in Massachusetts research institutes.

Mini-grants support technology development. The Center awards up to $25,000 to inventors from Massachusetts research institutions to fund proof-of-concept research or the development of more refined marketing and commercialization plans.