{"id":1,"date":"2015-08-12T08:14:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T08:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/?p=1"},"modified":"2015-08-18T18:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T18:50:46","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/2015\/08\/12\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c5A researchers in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We,\u00a0Oskar Karlstr\u00f6m and Lauri Falck, are two researchers from \u00c5bo Akademi,\u00a0and we&#8217;ve been in Chicago, US, since June. We have the privilege of participating in\u00a0a unique collaboration\u00a0between our home university and Northwestern University (NU).\u00a0During our time here, we\u00a0have\u00a0been working at the\u00a0Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO) at NU, with something called technology transfer.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly is technology transfer? Tech transfer is a term used to describe a formal transfer of rights to use and commercialize new discoveries and innovations resulting from scientific research to another party. Sounds logical enough, right? Universities typically transfer technology through protecting (using patents and copyrights), and then licensing new innovations.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0why are we at NU? The tech transfer office at NU (INVO)\u00a0is, and has been for quite some time, one of the absolute best in the world at\u00a0translating innovations from the\u00a0university into commercial products that benefit both the university and the public\u00a0(see <a href=\"http:\/\/(http:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2011\/12\/top-20-u-s-technology-transfer-programs-by-2010-license-income\/)\">link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Our mission as participants of this\u00a0collaboration is\u00a0to learn as much as possible about the tech transfer process at NU and bring\u00a0valuable insight back to\u00a0our home university\u00a0in order to improve the technology transfer activities there. A sponge is a good analogy for our role: trying to suck up as much information as possible during our internship, and then squeezing that out at \u00c5A.<\/p>\n<p>During the first eight weeks of our stay\u00a0we have also been participating in a course called\u00a0<em>Management for Scientists and Engineers<\/em>\u00a0at Kellogg School of Management &#8211; one of the best business schools in the world.<\/p>\n<p>More information on\u00a0why technology transfer is important and how the course\u00a0has helped us understand the business side of things will follow later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2015\/08\/loskar2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2015\/08\/loskar2-300x273.png\" alt=\"loskar2\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2015\/08\/loskar2-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2015\/08\/loskar2.png 471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lauri and Oskar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! We,\u00a0Oskar Karlstr\u00f6m and Lauri Falck, are two researchers from \u00c5bo Akademi,\u00a0and we&#8217;ve been in Chicago, US, since June. We have the privilege of participating in\u00a0a unique collaboration\u00a0between our home university and Northwestern University (NU).\u00a0During our time here, we\u00a0have\u00a0been working &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/2015\/08\/12\/hello-world\/\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/technologytransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}