Tech transfer office can help a professor turn intellectual gifts into gold

Coming up with a technological breakthrough is a feather in a university researcher’s cap.

But taking that brilliant notion, and forming a profitable business, involves another degree of difficulty. So professors and other researchers who want to turn their intellectual gifts into gold will probably need a little help along the way.

"It takes more than a great idea," said Paul Riser Jr., managing director of technology-based entrepreneurship for Detroit business incubator TechTown. "Professors sometimes are great technologists or great engineers and sometimes they don’t have the know-how, from a business perspective."

By Doug Henze

Full Story: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20141207/NEWS/312079994/tech-transfer-office-can-help-a-professor-turn-intellectual-gifts

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Montana State University Tech Transfer Office: http://tto.montana.edu/

University of Montana Tech Transfer Office http://www.umt.edu/research/innovation/