Startup Inventor Showcase
The Translational Innovation Program program of the CCTS in partnership with the Corporate Engagement Office and Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Office of Technology Commercialization launched a new speaker series on January 13th 2020. The series features one inventor and one key resource from the innovation ecosystem each month. Inventors share stories of their successes, failures, struggles and rewards from building a startup.
The ongoing Monthly Speaker Series promotes an entrepreneurial mindset among clinicians, faculty, senior leaders, students and staff of The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Since academic entrepreneurship is a team sport, the series will also provide a forum for networking with biomedical researchers and clinicians, various players in the life science startup ecosystem, startup executives, investors and other members from the entrepreneurial community at large.
Some of the goals of the new series are to showcase:
- Inventors from a variety of fields and their exemplary work at the intersection of academic achievement, science, technology, and business
- Entrepreneurship as an exciting pathway and outcome of university research to address the critical health, science and technology challenges of our time.
- Demystify and nurture an entrepreneurial mindset among our clinicians, faculty and students
- Introduce and bring together representatives from the various support services, resources, funding mechanisms, training and guidance available to inventors
- Mapping of the ecosystem with a featured service each month to help potential inventors understand, navigate and venture into the world of life science startups
The series takes place at The James (Wasserstrom Family Conference Room), from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on the 2nd Monday of every month of the academic year.
A light breakfast will be provided and networking will begin at 7 a.m. and programming will begin at 7:30 a.m. There will be time for Q&A and networking following the speakers.
Series Flyer for the 2019-2020 academic calendar.
Registration is free, but required.