4 ways to make tech transfer more successful (no more money required) [Video]

Steve Blank has faced the challenge of healthcare startups and found a solution. First he taught the Lean LaunchPad class to the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps for two and a half years. As he has immersed himself in healthcare and its challenges, he has pinpointed the problem with most tech transfer offices.

“Life science needs a structure for commercialization that it never had,” he said.This fall he has been working with 28 teams of 110 healthcare entrepreneurs in a new class at University of California, San Francisco. Watch the video at the start of this post to see what one device team has learned so far.

His 10-week class has included four Bay Area venture capitalists that he “talked into teaching the class with him.”“I made a bet that I could teach 4 VCs how to teach this technique simultaneously with the class,” he said.

The investor/teachers are:

• Todd Morrill
  – managing director at Venture Management Group and diagnostics specialist
• …