Bama IP Commercialization Academy

Calling Student Entrepreneurs!

Interested in learning how to transform science and technology researchers’ inventions and discoveries into a new product or startup AND win some cash? Join us!

About the Academy

UA ORED is presenting the inaugural Bama IP Commercialization Academy with generous contributions from UA’s Culverhouse College of Business, AEI, and Alabama Power Foundation.

We are inviting you to join a team of student entrepreneurs and the inventor of a UA IP (patent or patent application) to identify a commercialization path of the IP.

Cash awards, training, and coaching/mentoring are available for students in this program as well as in the future business adventure.

All students from any program at UA are invited to participate! Ready to get started? Sign up here.

The Process

First, review this guidebook for specific details about the Bama IP Commercialization Academy.

Then browse the following IP abstracts for a possible project:

#	Tech ID	Inventors	Serial #	Title
1	19-0032	Amanda Koh	17/025,749	Soft robotic tools with sequentially underactuated magnetoreological fluidic joints
2	17-0044	Dawen Li	16/247,055	Rapid Metal Oxide Layer-Specific Photonic Treatment Using UV Led for Fabrication of Flexible Perovskite Structures
3	15-0022	Fei Hu	15/281,526	Systems and Methods for Rehabilitation of Limb Motion
4	21-0002	Seon Jeong, Feras Abushakra, Omar Asfar	17/733,019	A miniaturized reflector antenna
5	16-0018	Jaber Abu Qahouq	15/637,049	Systems, Methods, and Devices for Simultaneous Wireless and Wired Power Transfer
6	18-0022	Jialai Wang	16/388,000	Renewable Admixtures for Cementitious Compositions
7	21-0025	Ryan Summers, Shelby Mills, Meredith Mock	63/230,466	Bacterial N-Demthylases as Biocatalysts for the Production of Methylxanthines
8	13-0039	Shuhui Li	14/451,768	Systems, methods and devices for vector control of permanent magnet synchronous machines using artificial neural networks (See IIA 14-0008)
9	17-0029	Qiang Huang	two patents (US11008664 and US11371154)	Methods and systems for electrochemical additive manufacturing.
10	16-0041	Jason Bara	16-0041 (Ionic Polyamides, issued patent)

Timeline

Phase 1

Team Formation
9/7/22 & 9/8/22 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Award: $300

Phase 2

Crimson Startup
9/30/22 to 11/4/22, Fridays from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Award: $600 to $3,000

Phase 3

Final Pitch
11/17/2022 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Award $4,000 to $10,000

All meetings will take place in AIME 110.

Sign-up Today

Questions? Contact:

Dr. Rob Morgan: rmorgan@culverhouse.ua.edu
Dr. Theresa Welbourne: twelbourne@culverhouse.ua.edu
Dr. Ying Qin: yqin@ua.edu