Panel: Driving Innovation through University-Industry Collaboration

University and industry collaboration allows both parties to rely on each other for their strengths. Industry has the funding for research and the experience to commercialize a product. Universities are research powerhouses that can tackle the in-the-trenches work to invent, develop, and test products. As we see more opportunities to foster university-industry collaboration, this panel will discuss mutually beneficial collaborations including more innovation-centric approaches to engaging with industry, opening more spaces for private-public collaborative innovation, and more ground-breaking applied research that has major social, environmental, and economic benefits.

Dorn Carranza, VentureWell
Camillo Archuleta, VentureWell
Mark Boden, Boston Scientific
Babu Dasgupta, Former NSF Program Director IUCRC Program
David Grewell, NSF IUCRC Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites
Shintaro Kaido, Drexel University Office of Corporate Relations & Economic
Lisa McDonal, Austin Technology Incubator Development
Van Truskett, University of Texas at Austin – Office of Technology

Track: Novel Approaches