If you view your interns as just a set of extra hands to help handle a busy workload, you’re selling yourself, your interns, and your TTO short.

 A well-oiled intern program is more than just extra help — it can actually have a huge impact on your TTO’s productivity and overall performance. Whether they’re assisting with disclosure screenings, IP searches, or market research, interns have the potential to save the TTO time and money while providing the intern with valuable work experience. But to make internship programs work best, it takes a lot more than just getting warm bodies behind a desk.

When internship programs are properly structured and managed, they can free up the professionals in your office to handle the really critical work and boost team productivity – ultimately allowing more deals to get done. On the flip side, poorly constructed and managed programs can simply get in the way and waste time for your staff and the intern – leaving everyone dissatisfied.

We’ve teamed up with panel of experts from Stanford, Columbia, NCI/NIH, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to share the details of their standout internship programs, and help you ensure your own program – and your interns – are getting maximum benefit. We’ll review each organization’s unique structure, management practices, and tech transfer intern training programs, including innovative approaches to training that emerged from the pandemic.

Don’t miss the how-to guidance in this practical program:

Our diverse group of panelists are ready to share their knowledge and their real-world experience and lessons learned — so you can put their best practices into play right away, while avoiding key mistakes and problems.

Agenda

• How to develop a training program that benefits trainees and simultaneously increases work productivity for your office
• Unique components of each program that can be adapted in your office
• Compensation and oversight of interns
• Appropriate roles – and some not-so-appropriate
• Metrics for success with intern programs
• How to measure the organization-wide impact of a successful program
• Internship programs as a training ground for future staff
• Criteria for students/postdocs to apply, and how to determine a good fit

Use the streaming video for future training and education

Meet your program leaders

	Ying-Li Chen, MBA (Program Moderator) Assistant Director Business Development and Strategic Marketing Stanford University – Office of Technology Licensing
	Chelsea Longwell Business Development and Marketing Associate Stanford University – Office of Technology Licensing
	David Mallin, PhD Licensing Manager Stanford University – Office of Technology Licensing
	Liz Beerman Director, Contracts & Compliance, Columbia University Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV)
	Laura Prestia, PhD Senior Innovation Manager Technology Transfer Center, National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH
	Michelle Chitambar, PhD Assistant Director, Licensing & Senior Technology Manager University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Office of Technology Management

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Digital Package

This program is delivered as a digital package that includes the on-demand video with closed captions and the slide deck from the live presentation – and you can share it whenever you wish throughout your organization.