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Steve Albers is the Associate Director for Launchpad, the startup program at CSU Ventures, which is the technology transfer office for Colorado State University. Steve leads all the startup programming for Launchpad, and engages daily with CSUV startup companies to ensure the best chance of success. Steve is also the co-director of the ambassador program at CSUV, a training program that helps grad students and post-doctorals better understand the process of commercializing innovative technology originating from CSU.

Steve is also Co-founder and CTO of Living Ink Technologies, a tech startup that generates renewable pigments from algae and other microbes capable of replacing petroleum-derived pigments. This interview focuses on Steve's work at CSU.

Helge Seetzen is an award-winning technologist, entrepreneur, and a recognized global authority on technology transfer and display technologies. As General Partner of TandemLaunch Accelerator in Montreal, Helge works with inventors and entrepreneurs to build high growth technology companies. His past successes include the transformation of raw university IP into fully commercialized LED TV technology, including selling his last company BrightSide Technologies to Dolby Laboratories after sealing partnerships with several of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world.

In this episode we focus on Helge's work at TandemLaunch where they've created over 20 technologies companies, accounting for hundreds of jobs and more than $500M in market value, and commercialized technologies from over 50 international universities.

Today I'm speaking with Dr. Nichole Mercier, Managing Director for the Office of Technology Management at Washington University in Saint Louis. During her time at Washington University, as well as through her work with AUTM (Association of University Technology Managers), Nichole has been a leader in analyzing the disparities between male and female innovators, and launching programming to help close the gap. In this episode, we'll focus on her work in those areas.

In this episode of Research Realized, Kirsten Leute speaks with Rubén D. Flores, Director of Commercialization at UC San Diego's Office of Innovation and Commercialization. As Director of Commercialization, Rubén oversees UCSD's efforts to bring their cutting-edge inventions to their ultimate goal of positively impacting our world.

Prior to joining UCSD, Rubén was Vice President of Business Development at LA Biomed, a non-profit private research organization. Previously, Rubén held scientific and business development positions with large and small biotech companies in California after earning his PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from UCLA.

In this episode of Research Realized, Kirsten Leute speaks with Namratha Vedire, Associate Director for the Center for Deliberate Innovation at Georgia Tech. The center's main focus is to make reliable innovation practices based on the principles of behavioral economics, social psychology, and business frameworks accessible to faculty and students at Georgia Tech. One of the programs at the Center for Deliberate Innovation is Flashpoint@GT, an innovation accelerator Namratha is heavily involved in.

Previously, Nammy worked at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute as a venture creation consultant where part of her job included pitch advisory sessions with startup founders at Yale.