UK Contacts
Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship
Business Development Executive Director
Dean Harvey / (859) 257-1930
Lexington Innovation & Commercialization Center
Pat Powell / (859) 257-6871
Commercialization Specialists
Jessica Williams / (859) 218-6559
Natasha Jones / (859) 218-6557
Kentucky Small Business Development Center
Becky Naugle / (859) 257-7668
Alumni Expert Network
The Web-based UK Alumni Expert Network connects tens of thousands of Kentucky small businesses and entrepreneurs with alumni who have expertise in thousands of topic areas from agribusiness to executive talent acquisition. Kentucky businesses simply search the more than 2,100 expert topic areas and fill out an online request. Alumni experts provide two hours of free consulting per business.
B2B Faculty Networking Events
The UK Business Development team organizes Faculty Networking Events for faculty entrepreneurs twice a year. Contact Jessica Williams or Natasha Jones for more information.
Partners
Bluegrass Business Development Partnership
330 East Main Street, Second Floor
(859)
225-5005 info@thinkbluegrass.com
U.S. Dept of Commerce EDA’s University Center Economic Development Partnership
Kentucky Innovation & Commercialization Centers (ICC)
Kentucky Small Business Development Center
Related Links
Agenda:
- Introduction to UK's new customized commercialization process
- Working with Therix Medical to bring your medical devices and diagnostics ideas to market
- Remarks by UK President Lee T. Todd Jr.
- Keynote speaker Dr. Thomas J. Fogarty, "How I Made it Happen." Fogarty is the inventor of the first balloon embolectomy catheter and has more than 70 medical device patents.
- State of the industry panel, Suzette Dutch, managing partner, Triathlon Medical Ventures; Elaine Duncan, founder, Paladin Medical; and Elizabeth Brooks, president, Decision-Driver Analytics Inc.
Continental breakfast and boxed lunch provided. Registration deadline is Monday, July 27, 2009. For more information, contact Jessica Williams. The first annual Clinician Innovations Day is sponsored by the UK Office for Commercialization & Economic Development and Therix Medical.
About Therix Medical
Therix Medical is a privately funded business development initiative that brings clinicians' ideas to market. Using a commercialization process designed to fit the hectic schedule of a clinician, Therix develops proof of concept and markets the resulting product. In return, UK and the clinician share in royalties and patent rights. Therix will focus on medical devices and diagnostics.