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Science at the Edge
Engineering Seminar
October
20th, 2017
11:30
a.m.
Room1400
Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building
Refreshments
served at 11:15 a.m.
Neil Kane
Department
of Marketing
Michigan
State University
Changing the World in
Nine Easy Steps
Abstract
Neil Kane, an experienced entrepreneur and
technology commercialization specialist, who is the MSU Director
of Undergraduate Entrepreneurship, will directly address the
differences in motivation and culture between scientists and
entrepreneurs. A successful company will require expertise from
both camps, and understanding each other’s motivations is
critical. Kane will then offer his “Nine Guiding Principles” for
the successful commercialization of a research-derived
innovation through a startup company.
Bio
A leading
authority on technology commercialization, entrepreneurship and
innovation, he is the Director of Undergraduate Entrepreneurship
at Michigan State University. Is former co-Executive Director of
the Illinois Technology Enterprise Center at Argonne and was EIR
at the University of Illinois. He was the founding CEO of
several startup companies based on university research in areas
such as nanotechnology and advanced materials.
He holds a BS in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an
MBA from The University of Chicago. He attended graduate school
at the Australian Graduate School of Management and studied in
Japan on a scholarship from JETRO. Named a 2007 Technology
Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, he twice attended their
annual meeting in Davos. Recognized for Outstanding
Entrepreneurship by NSF. Twice an invited witness on tech
transfer for the U.S. House of Representative’s Subcommittee on
Research & Science Education. Contributor to Forbes.com.
For further
information please contact Prof. Richard Lunt, Department of
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at [log in to unmask]
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to request and receive reasonable accommodation. Please call the
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at
355-5135 at least one day prior to the seminar; requests
received after this date will be met when possible.