Duties And Responsibilities
Establish a brown bag lunch seminar series including: a) Personal stories from faculty and research staff who have successfully translated their research into products and services; b) Specific entrepreneurship topics from the need to do customer discovery to understanding intellectual property to raising investor funds. Host industry seminar series and workshops bringing in successful local entrepreneurs including faculty to tell their stories to inspire those that might be interested but not confident in their ability to do the same. Organize and operate a series of innovation and design thinking events based on the Stanford School model under the Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship. Hold smallscale 3040 participants) evening full day or extended 1 week to 3 month design challenges in which undergrad students grad students research staff and faculty work on interdisciplinary teams of 46 people to explore potential solutions in response to a specific design challenge prompts such as: a) Material science technical challenge; b) Electronicsphotonics technical challenge; c) Quantum engineering technical challenge; d) Women in STEAM design challenge; e) Tribal college community problem solving challenge. Hold larger scale 25100 participants) partday symposiumstyle events particularly focused on attracting the broadest possible array of students faculty and staff over a shorter period of time 23 hours). Some examples of these events might include: a) Research Idea Translation Week A supportive and transformative ideatopitch workshop taking place over multiple sessions over the course of one week to help people understand the steps needed to take a research idea or technology and move it toward translation. b) Women in STEAM Introduction to Entrepreneurship A series of 46 weekly 2hour seminars and workshops for entrepreneurially interested women. Assist with planning and of MSUs annual spring Venture Competition and fall Big Ideas Challenge. Assist with planning and of MSUs 406 Labs accelerator/incubator. Execute marketing promotion and registrations for these events. Track event registration and attendance and manage surveys and feedback from related events. Collaborate with the MSU ART Manager and MSU ART Ambassadors MSU administrative leaders and select faculty) to increase the level of support for research translation at MSU . Facilitate and manage relationships and contracts with external consultants mentors entrepreneurs and coaches for assistance with these events and programs. Draft review negotiate and maintain various types of legal agreements with external entities including other universities companies governmental agencies and nonprofit entities. (Role does not require formal legal training. Assist MSU TTO Technology Managers with preparation and of contract amendments invention assignment agreements invention disclosures and other legal agreements that are primarily managed by TTO Technology Managers. Develop and manage procedures for regular records maintenance in TTO database to keep TTO records current. This may include informal supervision of student assistance for data entry and/or data maintenance. Assist with other administrative tasks for the MSU TTO .
Physical Demands
To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required.
Required Experience:
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