Guiding inventions from lab to market
A career in technology transfer requires skills in multitasking, communicating, and negotiating; one reward is seeing scientific advances benefit society.
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A career in technology transfer requires skills in multitasking, communicating, and negotiating; one reward is seeing scientific advances benefit society.
Share Jon Soderstrom, who has led Yale University’s Office of Cooperative Research (OCR) since 1996, will step down as managing director on June 30. Serving as both an incubator for Yale innovators and a driver of regional economic development, OCR’s main charge is to assist in translating Yale research into societally beneficial products and services. Soderstrom will move into a new position as strategic advisor for technology transfer and commercialization in the Office of the Provost. In this role, Soderstrom will advise Yale Provost Scott Strobel from his reservoir of expertise in t...