Empower Your TTO: Effective Advocacy for Budget Dollars and Resources

Program agenda:

• Culture: Identify your university’s innovation culture, effect change and get buy-in from leadership.
• Understanding leadership’s wants and needs, and creating a compelling story that meets those needs while demonstrating your office’s ROI and value
• Delivering high impact data to support the need for dollars and resources to support the university’s mission
• Using grants as a jumping off point — and making the outcomes sustainable after the money runs dry (ART, EDA, etc.)

Most tech transfer offices struggle to secure the budget and resources necessary to thrive.

Tech transfer offices play a crucial role in turning innovations into marketable products and start-up companies – and bolstering the university’s reputation for research impact. Yet, despite this invaluable role in supporting a critical part of the university mission, TTOs don’t often “feel the love” when it comes to their budgets. “Do more with less” is, unfortunately, a common refrain heard by frustrated tech transfer leaders.

We’d like to help you get the budget dollars and resources you deserve – and which are necessary to meet university administrators’ demands for more innovations, more impact, more licenses and partnerships, and greater impact.

That’s why we’ve invited two tech transfer leaders to discuss proven strategies for internal advocacy that get results in the form of higher budget allocations and other key resources.

Who should watch?

• TTO Leadership
• Tech Transfer Managers
• Licensing Officers
• Technology Commercialization Specialists
• University Research Administrators
• Anyone involved in securing funding for tech transfer activities

Empower your office to reach new heights by securing the budget and resources you need. 

Program Leaders