Columbia Technology Ventures’ Executive Director Orin Herskowitz discusses the fast-changing and ever-growing world of patenting and licensing early-stage university technologies, including examples of scientific inventions, how patent decisions get made, and how license agreements are negotiated, both within Columbia and across the industry.

Patenting & Licensing Of Early-Stage University Technology

Columbia Technology Ventures is the tech transfer office of Columbia University. Our core objective is to facilitate the transfer of inventions from academic research to outside organizations for the benefit of society on a local, national and global basis. Each year, CTV manages more than 330 invention disclosures from faculty, 70 license deals and 15 new start-ups, involving approximately 45 multi-disciplinary, full-time staff across Columbia's two campuses. CTV currently has over 1200 patent assets available for licensing, across research fields such as bio, IT, cleantech, devices, nanotechnology, and material science.

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Patenting & Licensing Of Early-Stage University Technology

Patenting & Licensing Of Early-Stage University Technology