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]
Persons with disabilities have the right
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.