AUTM on the Air
by AUTM
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AUTM on the AIR is the weekly podcast that brings you conversations about the impact of research commercialization and the people who make it happen. Join us for interviews with patent and licensing professionals, innovators, entrepreneurs, and tech transfer leaders on the issues and trends that matter most.
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- Helping University Startups Turn Research Innovations Into Products Federal Agencies Can Actually Use with Brandon Klein · 28 minFor university startups, working with the federal government can open the door to valuable opportunities, but getting from an initial research award to an actual customer is…
- The Startup Shift: How Universities Are Filling the Commercialization Gap with Michael Dixon · 43 minUniversity technology transfer has changed in a pretty fundamental way. Established companies are often looking for technologies that are further along than they once were, which…
- Beyond Licensing Revenue: What Taxpayers Gain from University Research with Steve Susalka and Stuart Wilkinson · 53 minTaxpayers help pay for university research, but figuring out what they get back isn't as simple as adding up licensing revenue. Sometimes the payoff is a new product. Other times…
- There Are NO Bad Patent Examiners — What Patent Professionals Can Learn from the Other Side of the Desk with Mary Maille Lyons · 59 minWhat really happens on the other side of a patent application? Attorneys and inventors spend plenty of time thinking about claims, prior art, and Office Actions, but the examiner…
- Unfettered Invention: How the X Patents Sparked Early American Technology with Scott B. Guthery, Julie Burke, and Michael Risch · 59 minWhat happens when nearly 10,000 patents from the earliest years of the American patent system are lost, scattered, or destroyed? Those records tell a much bigger story than who…
- AUTM’s New Canadian Public Policy Advisory Committee with Sarrah Lal · 28 minCanada has a strong research base, but turning discoveries into lasting economic and societal value is not always easy. In this episode of AUTM on the Air, I talk with Sarrah Lal…
- D. Max Crowley - What if Universities Have Built the Wrong Scorecard? · 38 minTechnology transfer offices usually keep score with patents, licenses, startups and revenue. It's real proof research is moving beyond the lab. Yet it can miss some of the most…
- Feel Your Best Self with Dr. Sandy Chafouleas, Emily Wicks, and Dr. Christopher Conners · 56 minSome of the most impactful innovations don’t fit neatly into the traditional technology transfer model. Feel Your Best Self began during the COVID-19 pandemic as a collaboration…
- Why Global Capital is Betting on University Research with Steve Susalka and Stuart Wilkinson · 1 h 0 minUniversity research can produce ideas with enormous potential, but turning those discoveries into something that reaches the market is rarely straightforward. Funding is part of…
- Michael Coyle - Drug Repurposing and Repositioning SIG · 37 minDrug repurposing and reformulation can open new possibilities for therapies that already exist, but these projects come with commercialization challenges that can look very…
- A National Treasure: How UAB’s Moon Nahm Revolutionized the Global Fight Against Pneumococcal Disease · 52 minPneumococcal disease remains a serious global health threat, particularly for young children, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems. Developing effective vaccines…
- PanCystPro™ and Early Pancreatic Cancer Detection with Diana Caldwell and Joseph Kasper · 49 minPancreatic cancer remains one of the most difficult cancers to detect early, and that challenge leaves clinicians and patients facing uncertainty when pancreatic cysts are…
- A New Golden Age — What the White House’s Research Overhaul Means for Tech Transfer with Jeffrey Mervis · 48 minThe way the federal government supports scientific research could be headed for a significant shift. A new White House report, *Science: A New Golden Age*, lays out a different…
- Patents, Plant Variety Protection, CRISPR, and What Every TTO Needs to Know with Heidi Sease Nebel · 52 minPlant discoveries can be some of the trickiest inventions for a technology transfer office to manage. A new variety may come out of years of breeding work, field trials…
- Collective Behavior, Decentralized Systems, and Lessons from Ant Colonies with Deborah M. Gordon · 27 minIt might seem like a leap to connect ant colonies with technology transfer, but the connection is closer than it sounds. Ant colonies operate without a boss, a formal plan, or…
- Training the Next Generation of Innovation Leaders with Kendra Hargis-Stenzel · 44 minTraining the next generation of technology transfer and commercialization leaders requires more than exposure to the field. It also means helping researchers think earlier about…
- Advancing Biopharma Innovation with Ruben Flores-Saaib · 42 minBiopharma commercialization has always required more than a promising discovery. It takes the right team, the right timing, and often, the right kind of capital to move an idea…
- World Intellectual Property Report 2026: Technology on the Move with Intan M. Hamdan-Livramento and Julio D. Raffo · 1 h 17 minA breakthrough can happen in one lab, but its real value depends on what happens next. How does a new technology move beyond its point of origin, reach the people and industries…
- Why Communication Matters in IP Strategy with Stephen Hall · 48 minUniversity IP strategy can look straightforward from the outside. Protect the invention, manage the policy, move the technology toward the market. But anyone working inside a…
- How Venture Philanthropy Helps Move Rare Disease Research Forward with Tim Brent · 31 minGetting discoveries out of the lab is only part of the commercialization journey. At some point, a promising idea reaches the stage where investment decisions can determine…
