PSU, OGI offer commercialization course
Portland Business Journal
Jun 1, 2007
By Aliza Earnshaw and Robin J. Moody
For the first time ever, Portland State University and OHSU's OGI School of Science & Engineering are teaming up to offer a graduate-level class in business.
Melissa Appleyard, a professor at PSU's business school, and Jack Raiton, a senior fellow with OGI's department of management in science and technology, will co-teach a class in commercializing technology.
The two-term, six-unit class will be offered in the winter and spring terms next year, and will be available to MBA students from both schools, as well as from other universities and colleges.
OGI already has a one-term course in commercialization.
The expanded course is intended for people who either want to start their own company, work with another entrepreneur, or launch a new business inside an established company.
Appleyard and Raiton hope to draw from technologies being developed in the labs of PSU and Oregon Health & Science University.
The OGI School of Science & Engineering is part of OHSU.
"We'd like to have the students sort through those ideas, and choose one with market potential," said Appleyard.
The new course will be based on an entrepreneurship class now taught at University of California at Davis over three terms. OGI and PSU are offering a "precursor" course to whet interest: a five-day intensive workshop in commercialization, to be held in August.
That course will be run by Scott Lenet, founder and managing director of DFJ Frontier, an affiliate of Silicon Valley venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
"He's incredibly effective, and has a really deep Rolodex," said Raiton. "This course should prove invaluable to budding entrepreneurs."
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