#7: Dr. David Allen - Tech Launch Arizona

<p>David Allen has spent his life working in technology development and commercialization at five US universities, in a career that saw him supervising over 600 exclusive licenses, enabling over 175 start-ups, managing nearly 225 POC projects and successfully negotiating two major ($40M+) royalty monetizations.<strong> </strong>He's spent almost 30 years in technology transfer and knows his stuff on what makes a university tech transfer office (TTO) successful. In this episode we talk about what it takes to build and run successful TTOs, the importance of engaging the local business, entrepreneurial and investment community, proof-of-concept funding, and how to make the TTO your friend in a license negotiation. It's a high-level technical conversation but useful for any entrepreneur, grad-student or researcher that's looking to get into the mind of the technology transfer organization on campus.&nbsp;</p> <p>See his TED talk entitled <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGHFcsCVAyE&amp;ab_channel=TEDxTalks">The Potential of Technology Transfer</a> and find him on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-allen-173a4074/">LinkedIn</a>. &nbsp;</p> <p><strong>More about David</strong></p> <p>Early in his career he earned a national reputation as a researcher, consultant, and manager in the field of technology business incubators. Later in his career he gained a national reputation for turning around underperforming university technology transfer operations, and for creating and operating university proof of concept programs. Over his career he developed a knack for identifying the asset potential in research derived inventions and how to move the inventions into the market through intellectual property strategy and early-stage technology development. He spent decades building and using innovation and commercialization networks to augment technology transfer operations. He retired from the University of Arizona (UA) April 2018 after 5.5 years as Vice President of Tech Launch Arizona (TLA).</p> <p>Before coming t