708_ Delivering value to its primary internal and external constituents and stakeholders
The mission of the CU Technology Transfer Office is to aggressively pursue, protect, package, and license to business the intellectual property generated from 
the research enterprise and to serve faculty, staff, and students seeking to create such intellectual property. The entire CU TTO team has done a very excellent job in in light of the tough economy. Larry Nelson stopped in the CU Technology Transfer Office in Boulder to get a fiscal year end update from David Allen, Associate VP for Technology Transfer and Tom Smerdon, Director Of Licensing & New Business Development. Start-up Company Sustainability: In the last five years, 51 companies have been formed based on CU intellectual property. Of the 51 companies from the last five years, 44 are operational as either stand alone or subsidiary/merged companies. Here's a dashboard look at what was reported for fiscal year 2008 -09: invention disclosures (best year yet); patent applications (preformed well, even with slight downward pressure on the speculative patent budget); exclusive licensing transactions (best year yet) nonexclusive licenses (only one software product producing multiple licenses); start-ups (continued performance at nationally prominent level)Proof of Concept (POC) program (considerable investment in start-ups and maturation of individual technologies); overall revenue (expected low revenue, worsened by recession); business community engagement (great support from Colorado’s technology-centric, entrepreneurial community) support from the CU Administration (strategic importance maintained); Net-net: in a challenging fiscal environment, TTO managed well, and focused on continuing to deliver value to its primary internal and external constituents and stakeholders. There's more...
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Larry and Pat of w3w3.com attended a number of Colorado's top business events and captured photos of hundreds of attendees. If you were there, odds are, your picture is on the photo events page. Check these out: Epicenter of Organics Boulder; Sam Pitroda at TiE Rockies; Entrepreneurs Unplugged; Real Estate Investor Forum; DU/ACG Leadership 20; RMIMA Leadership; CPIA Posse; RVC Early Stage Investing; ACG Business Luncheon; Boulder/Denver New Tech Meetup; TiE Charter Meeting: daVinci, Mastering Change. Check out the photos now and see who you recognize.
During the recent Photonics Conference (POSSE - CPIA), 
Director of Marketing talked about the changes in the photonics sector and their one-stop-shop approach to their business. Stuart was a keynote speaker at conference and pointed out, "Some of the changes in the business particularly around the year 2000 related to telecom business. There was a huge amount of money being spent on infrastructure related to telecom, and that kind of bottomed out in late 2000, 2001 which really hurt the photonics business. Since then, there has been large growth now in using that infrastructure for new applications. These were first and foremost, biomedical and now they’re moving more and more toward solar type applications. Lynore said, "Different markets, different languages, we have to be dynamic, we have to employ people working in those fields. For example, there’s a tendency to talk your own speak in manufacturing. So do we talk in ‘optics talk’ or are we able to bridge the gap in terms of what a biologist needs, versus what we need to know to manufacture the product. As new markets are developed, we have to be sensible in our lexicon." Listen for more exciting details...
"As we look at statistics, people are making different choices today. They’re parking 
their cars. As a nation, we’re using less oil. They’re buying different products. As a nation we consumed fewer cars by maybe 4 million in 2008, projected over 2007, and it looks like China will actually sell more vehicles this year than we do in the US," said 
With 10 years of really solid industrial experience from the shop floor up plus 10 years of high tech, venture backed startups, 
In 2005 when Larry interviewed 
Apoplogic, Barofold, Copernican Energy and more. Four leaders from TTO continued to share their insights: Dave Allen, Associate VP for Technology Transfer; Kate Tallman, Director of Technology Transfer, Boulder and Colorado Springs Campuses; Tom Smerdon, Director Of Licensing & New Business Development; Rick Silva, Director of Technology Transfer, Anschutz Medical Campuses. The transformation into renewable energy economy is having a great impact on CU. There has been some interesting leadership involvement with the Collaboratory. The Collaboratory has been active in the last couple of years in bringing together several research centers among the four institutions (CU, CSU, Mines & NREL). CU TTO has also formed Over the past couple of years we’ve formed a strong relationship with the (BIC) the Boulder Innovation Center. Listen for more details... 
