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Profesor Benoît Godin, wybitny uczony i ekspert, profesor w Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Montreal, Kanada), ekspert organizacji międzynarodowych, członek komitetów redakcyjnych Minerva i Scientometrics; autor cenionych publikacji nt. polityki naukowej, ewaluacji badań i statystyki, m.in. książek:
Ponadto prof. Benoit Godin jest kierownikiem dwóch dużych międzynarodowych projektów:
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David L. Gulley, PhD, is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). For over 20 years, he has provided leadership at UIC for academic-industry collaborations including research, technology transfer and technology-based economic development initiatives. Gulley serves on regional industry association leadership committees and represents the University through service on several boards, committees, and with international efforts. Nationally, he serves as AUTM’s in-coming Vice President for Professional Development; on the CLP Board of Governors; and with BIO’s Technology Transfer Committee, BIO2010 Community Outreach Committee, and National Program Committee. He holds a Master’s graduate degree from Virginia Tech, and a BA and PhD from Southern Illinois University. |
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Justyna Ciegotura Technology Transfer Director at the ProRegio Foundation. Graduate from the University of Economics Poznan (MA), and Master of Business Administration program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (MBA). In 2001 – 2009 Technology Transfer Coordinator and the Business Analyst at the Office of Technology Management (OTM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago; supervised and managed the technology evaluation process for more than 120 inventions a year coming from various colleges: medicine, biotechnology, pharmacy, engineering, and computer science; created and supervised the Evaluation Department at OTM UIC; implemented a smooth technology evaluation system, with the use of the following techniques: market study and analysis, patent map ping and patent citation analysis; increased the effectiveness of the technology management system and the office operations; managed the active marketing of technologies and market analysis processes. In 2010 joined ProRegio Foundation, where holds a Technology Transfer Director position. Responsible for technology transfer operations and knowledge share, intellectual property management knowledge share, and best practices implementation. Supports Polish technology transfer and IP institutions with a practical knowledge and international aspects of business development. Publications: ABC Przedsiębiorczości Akademickiej (co-author), „Cykl komercjalizacji”, „Umiędzynarodowienie portfela patentowego”, Poznań 2009, Intellectual Property Management Manual (co-author), Marshall Office of Wielkopolska, Poznań 2009 |
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Laurent Buisson has been General Director for Research and Technology Transfer at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) since October 2008. UPMC is the leading French Research University with 31 000 students enrolled in Science and Medicine and 1900 faculty members. UPMC grants 700 PhD every year. It is based in downtown Paris and operates 3 marine stations.
Before joining UPMC, Laurent Buisson was head of the Department for innovation and regional policy with the French Ministry for Research.. This department deals with R&D in private companies (research tax credit), spin-off creation from public research (seed capital, incubators, national contest…), technology transfer and graduate or technological education in companies. This department is also in charge of the regional policy for Research. After ten years of research in computer science applied to environmental studies with INRIA, then with Cemagref in Grenoble, France, he held several positions as a senior administrator or as a scientific attaché with the Ministry for Research in Strasbourg or with the French Foreign Service in Chicago. Laurent Buisson received a PhD from Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble and is a alumni from Ecole Polytechnique. |
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Linda S. Kawano, Ph.D.
For close to 25 years, Dr. Linda Kawano has held positions in the areas of sales support and marketing, technology transfer, technology assessment, licensing, and business development in both the corporate and academic sectors. Dr. Kawano's experience includes licensing diagnostic technologies for Abbott Laboratories, directing Northwestern University's Technology Transfer Program, business development, technical and sales support, and life science product marketing for the Life Sciences Division of Amersham Corporation. In 1996 she founded the consulting firm, GroupOptima Consulting Services focused on intellectual property management and technology transfer education. While serving as Director of the Technology Transfer Program at Northwestern University, Dr. Kawano negotiated a license agreement for an invention that eventually became a blockbuster drug, LyricaTM, for Pfizer Co. Sales of LyricaTM are reported to have reached $1.2 billion in 2006. Through GroupOptima, Dr. Kawano has been retained by U.S., Japanese and European universities and companies throughout North America and overseas. In an effort to expand global understanding and knowledge about technology transfer, Dr. Kawano developed a tailored, modular course, Academic Technology Transfer Practice for non-U.S. Universities and Corporations that she has presented to Asian and European universities. She has also taught and served as a management lab coach at The University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business. Dr. Kawano is a long standing member and served as a Vice President of the Association of University Technology Transfer Managers (AUTM). She also served as a member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) Membership Committee and is a frequent participant in numerous technology transfer workshops, seminars and courses. She holds a B.S. in Biological Sciences and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences and Experimental Pathology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Kawano is a recipient of the AUTM Excellence Award and is a registered Certified Licensing Professional. |
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Charles C. Valauskas is co-founder of and partner in the Chicago law firm of Valauskas & Pine LLC. Mr. Valauskas has represented businesses and institutions (including universities and research foundations) in a wide variety of technological areas in patent and other intellectual property matters, licensing, and commercialization. Mr. Valauskas is the Vice President for Industry Relations of the Association of University Technology Managers. He is regularly engaged as a speaker both in the United States and overseas on a wide variety of intellectual property topics, most recently on the topic of intellectual property protection of business method patents, the protection and commercialization of software and other forms of content, and licensing. He has taught as an adjunct professor on intellectual property matters. Charles received his B.S. from the University of Illinois (Chicago 1977), a J.D. from the DePaul University College of Law (1981), and a LL.M. from the Northwestern University School of Law (1985). |
| Jan Heidjer Staecker, J.D., L.L.M. TreMonti Consulting, LLC Heidjer Staecker is a Partner with TreMonti Consulting. He has over 10 years experience in commercialization & licensing of intellectual property, monitoring abuse of intellectual property, and intellectual property sourcing. Prior to co-founding TreMonti Consulting, Mr. Staecker worked for Deloitte & Touche's, Washington, DC Intellectual Asset Management Practice, and as an attorney focusing on corporate issues, including contract management, M&A, cost sharing agreements, and the tax treatment of royalty streams. Mr. Staecker received a B.A. in Biology and Society from Cornell University, a Juris Doctor from the University of Miami, and a Master of Laws from Georgetown University. |
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June Lavelle has been working in the business and workforce development services fields for over 30 years and is a widely recognized authority on systematic approaches to support new business formation and improve the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises. Lavelle served for 13 years as the Executive Director of a not-for-profit association of manufacturers located in Chicago’s riot-torn west side neighborhoods. Dubbed “Mother of Invention” by Inc. Magazine, Lavelle received the prestigious Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” award in 1992, selected first among a nation-wide competition for her work in supporting entrepreneurship. While in Chicago, Lavelle also pioneered programs to improve the competitiveness of targeted industries and sectors, such as the use of shared production equipment among a network of furniture and wood products firms and piloting the use of Interfirm Productivity Comparisons for the 1400 member Tooling & Manufacturing Association.
Ms. Lavelle has since concentrated on international development and has an impressive track record in developing long-term, financially sustainable organizations in nearly two dozen countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States, the Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa. Her efforts have focused on improving the business enabling environment; delivering technical assistance to high-potential industries and companies; encouraging job creation through entrepreneurship and business incubation; and building local organizations’ capacity to deliver a wide range of business development services. In Poland, Ms. Lavelle served as Chief International Consultant for the World Bank-funded “TOR 10” Project where she led a team of local consultants in the early ‘90s to develop twelve business incubators in communities hardest hit by unemployment after which she served as Chief of Party for USAID’s Business Support Project (BSP), which built the technical and financial performance of 30 business support organizations and 120 Polish consultants to deliver services to SMEs on a full cost-recovery basis. Since 2000, Lavelle has provided strategic planning and organizational development services to private sector clients in Poland, including the Technology Business Accelerator at the University of Lodz, Pfizer Polska sp. z o.o., and the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland. |
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Mary Dicig - Owner, Law Office of Mary Dicig, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at UIC, adjunct faculty at Kent College of Law. Primary practice is providing outside general counsel services to technology companies with substantial intellectual property assets. Areas of expertise include due diligence for investment (both company and investor side), licensing and IP management. Former employment includes positions as a published pharmaceutical scientist, law firm partner and department head, Director of the Technology Transfer Office at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and VP and Gen. Counsel for two successful technology companies. Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at UIC, adjunct faculty at Kent College of Law. Member of the Patent Bar. Specialties: due diligence licensing IP management and strategy branding and endorsement advertising law strategic alliance agreements employment law |
