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Technology Commercialization: Aligning Development Requirements to Value Creation
Technology transfer as a process: how discoveries move out of a research setting, through which mechanisms, and under what constraints, in academic and industrial contexts alike.
- Term
- Fall 2026
- Credits
- 3
- Format
- Online, asynchronous
- Program
- Engineering, Innovation Management & Leadership
- Division
- Engineering Leadership & Professional Practice
- School
- Case School of Engineering
The course
The overall goal of this course is to address the process of technology transfer. It builds on an understanding of the IP management and commercialization activities that follow a new discovery, and examines specific approaches to commercializing technology through transfer, in the context of academic research and of industry research and development alike.
The course surveys the drivers that govern relevant industry standards, then works through the specific instruments available: sponsored research, licensing, and startup formation. Each carries a different distribution of control, capital, and risk, and each suits a different kind of technology at a different stage.
EPOM 412 is offered through the Division of Engineering Leadership and Professional Practice as an elective in the Case School of Engineering's online master's programs, and is delivered entirely online. Lectures and materials are released on a schedule and worked through asynchronously, so students in different time zones take the course over the semester without a fixed meeting time. Students work in teams, and the class itself is virtual.
The course includes hands-on assessment of two case studies presenting applications of law and policy in the context of collaborative technology development. Each student team delivers a critique and a position on how it would handle the circumstances of the case.