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Who should attend?

This program will benefit entrepreneurs, university administration and faculty, business development professionals, company executives, and regional policy makers - anyone involved in developing an innovation ecosphere in their home region.

Why attend?

See how the unique ecosystem of Boston's non-profits, supporting organizations, and investor community facilitates commercialization of technologies from leading Massachusetts research institutions and spurs the creation of new companies.

How to schedule the training?

We will be glad to customize the program's content and length for you, find convenient dates, and help with accommodation. Please contact Julia Goldberg, Programs Manager at jgoldberg@umassp.edu

We are an experienced team which has worked with many regions of the world - we look forward to hosting your group!

Abi Barrow and Julia Goldberg, MTTC

MTTC Commercialization and Start-up Formation Course

The Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center offers a 2-week educational and professional enrichment program "Technology Commercialization and Start-up Formation, Advanced Training Course."

	MTTC training for groups from 4 to 12 people includes planning and coordinating the program's content; providing rooms for instruction and meetings; and taking participants to two one-day trips to further Massachusetts business areas.
	Course participants reside in the vibrant Cambridge area with an easy access to MIT and Harvard University. Participants gain knowledge of development of efficient innovative University infrastructure and US intellectual property management; learn about business models of small innovation companies including development of marketing strategy and obtaining investment.
	The course included seminars about Technology Transfer Basics; visits to Tech Transfer offices of MA universities, visits to Incubators and Proof of Concept Centers; and various networking events. Participants meet with more than 30 professionals from research institutions, start-ups, big companies, market analysis companies, entrepreneurs; investors, and non-profit organizations, which accelerate technology commercialization in MA.
	Participants attend workshop on negotiations, training on pitch presenting and on-line resources and implement the learned skills in a group assignments and individual assignments consisting of reports and presentations. Upon successful completion of the Training Program, participants are provided a certificate of participation.

* MTTC staff member can provide interpreting from and to Russian and Hebrew during training sessions as necessary.

Feedback from participants:

"...I presented to my management a plan that includes technology transfer and teaching student about start-up formation. The plan was approved. So as you see, all that you had educated us about was very useful and will be developed. Thank you very much for warm hospitality and fruitful program..."

"...Thank you for interesting training course and good management..."

"...We couldn't see any deficiency of the program. The whole course was built professionally, was very balanced and extremely helpful for our work. We got inclusive picture about innovation ecosystem of MA and we plan to use the gained experience in our University..."

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