Technology Transfer Associate

About the role

Support faculty and employee inventors to identify research results with the potential to be patentable inventions, through all phases of assessment and commercialization.

Responsibilities

• Review inventions to assess legal protectability, commercial viability, and stage of development, including executing prior art searches.
• Utilize business intelligence resources to vet early disclosures, assess the market potential of inventions, and understand potential markets and uses of the technology.
• Engage with legal personnel to develop an intellectual property strategy, including high quality provisional patent applications.
• Determine commercialization strategy and market the technology to licensing partners with established companies or startups.
• Engage and develop the University's Subject Matter Expert Network to obtain key information for commercialization opportunities.
• Engage internal resources to access Proof of Concept opportunities to advance product development based on commercialization research and insights.
• Engage business development and entrepreneurship resources in the OEIP to identify commercialization partners and execute license opportunities to established companies or startups; develop and execute option and confidentiality agreements, as well as collaborative research agreements, research contracts, consultation agreements, and similar economic partnerships in support of commercialization goals.
• Cultivate high-trust relationships with faculty, units, students; and become familiar with innovation activities in various units.
• Participate in university-wide and unit-specific communication and education regarding UD technology commercialization activities.
• Participate in data collection related to specific units and institutional metrics for technology commercialization.
• Work with industry relation and corporate engagement team members to enhance collaboration with stakeholders and enhance innovation process and outcomes.
• Support and execute sustainable partnerships by bridging gaps between research innovation and commercial application of technology.
• Develop and maintain network of industry contacts with business interests that align with research innovation at UD.
• Align needs of both the university (academia) and industry (business) to establish successful, sustainable efforts for both parties.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a science or engineering-related field and 5 years of relevant experience, or alternatively, a Master's degree in same and 3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience must be in technology transfer, conducting patentability assessments, evaluating invention disclosures, licensing and related agreements, business development, and facilitating external partnerships.

Pay

$85,000 to $95,000

Schedule

Limited telework permitted – must be on-site three days per week.