Position Details

Reporting to the Director of the Technology Ventures Office, the Administrative Coordinator will provide administrative support to the Technology Ventures Office, including in-house administrative and paralegal services.  The Technology Ventures Office focuses on the identification and protection of Medical Center intellectual property, and is responsible for a variety of its interactions and transactions with the for-profit corporate venture capital, biopharmaceutical and information technology community.  The individual in this position will handle details of a highly confidential and critical nature.

Position Details

The University of Massachusetts is seeking an interim technology transfer consultant to assist for several months to manage an OTL office. Must have a minimum experience of 5 years in an academic technology transfer office to be considered, including licensing negotiations and the marketing of technologies. The position could be part-time. The focus of the technologies will be primarily engineering related not life sciences.

If interested please contact:
William Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Commercial Venture and Intellectual Property (CVIP)
University of Massachusetts, President Office
wrosenberg@umassp.edu

The Technology Licensing Office of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has an entry level position available in technology transfer. The Technology Licensing Associate will administer, market and maintain license agreements for the office working under the direction of the appropriate Technology Licensing Officers. The individual will communicate with the licensing officers’ industrial counterparts, faculty, patent attorneys and accountants. The Associate will attend licensing negotiations with licensees and keep track of terms and issues. The Associate will enter invention disclosure and licensing data into a database system and keep updated files. The Associate will also participate in obtaining waivers of government rights to inventions, assist in marketing studies, and negotiate certain agreements.

Position Details

Key Responsibilities:
The Licensing Manager is an integral part of the senior management team of the Research and Licensing office, responsible for supervising and directing the efforts of a team of licensing professionals and for setting goals and strategy. This candidate is a seasoned licensing professional who can work independently to conclude industrial relationships/contracts of varying complexity. This candidate will work with investigators, outside counsel and industry to identify and protect the intellectual property arising from the investigators’ research activities. S/he will also be responsible for drafting and negotiating agreements pertaining to research, licensing and other aspects of investigator/industry interactions. S/he may be an authorized signatory on institutional agreements.

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The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard seeks a LICENSING MANAGER, Broad Institute, to evaluate scientific and novel aspects of Broad inventions, patentability, and commercial applications. Will manage the patenting process for inventions generated from multidisciplinary research and that jointly owned by multiple Broad partner institutions; identify potential commercial licensees, market inventions, and negotiate license and option agreements; monitor and maintain existing licenses; effectively and regularly communicate with Broad investigators and tech transfer offices of Broad collaborating institutions; manage the Broad intellectual property database, enter and analyze data, and keep the files up-to-date; and provide education for the Broad community on intellectual property matters.

Position Details

Under general supervision serves as Hospital representative in marketing Hospital-generated and owned technology, intellectual property and sponsored research collaboration opportunities to for-profit corporations. Evaluates the commercial potential of technology, identifies potential commercial partners, generates marketing materials and presentations and markets technology licensing and sponsored research opportunities to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies and investment groups for new ventures.

Position Details

Under general supervision serves as Hospital representative in evaluating and valuing Hospital-generated and owned technology, intellectual property and sponsored research collaboration opportunities to for-profit corporations. Evaluates the commercial potential of technology including analyzing specific markets by identifying competitors and related products, market revenue and barriers to entry or adoption. Values technologies using a variety of tools and data and prepares and presents financial models and projections to be used in licensing, business development and technology development activities.

Position Details

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard seeks a BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE, Broad Institute, to compose scientific industry agreements, e.g., confidentiality agreements, materials transfer, and collaboration agreements.  Will participate in contract negotiation meetings with industry sponsors, faculty, and staff, ensuring terms and issues relating to collaboration agreements are tracked and resolved; negotiate and resolve–in collaboration with the business development officer–problematic clauses in research collaboration agreements, including intellectual property and indemnification provisions; prepare master or consortium agreements and other unique scientific research relationships requiring special terms and conditions, coordinating input from Broad partner institutions; manage processes for industry agreements and invention disclosures and drive to completion, including detail tracking, reviewing, and reporting; serve as a liaison for and communicate regularly with Broad staff and tech transfer offices of Broad collaborating institutions; manage and expand the Broad business development database to meet Broad’s growing science and technology needs; and perform miscellaneous duties as needed.

Positional Details

A Statement of Intent to Apply is due on March 14, 2008 and is less than a page long.  April 11, 2008 is the due date for full proposals.  Proposals will only be accepted by those who submitted a Statement of Intent.

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Greetings,

Solicitation for the spring 2008 MTTC $40,000 Investigation Awards is now open.  Any Principal Investigator associated with a Massachusetts research institution is encouraged to apply.  This award program is open to all public and private research institutions, not just researchers associated with UMass. These awards provide a great opportunity to move inventions closer to commercialization.  Up to ten awards will be granted.

Please visit the updated Grants and Awards section of our website www.mattcenter.org for an application and information.  If you have any questions, please email me at mbernier@umassp.edu.

Sincerely,

Michele Bernier
Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
(617) 287-7018