UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Who's to Blame? Bayh-Dole, Universities, & the Declining Productivity of Pharmaceutical R&D
    Thursday, May 29
    SMG 220, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

    The Boston University Special Seminar Series on Alternative Models for Technology Translation presents Iain Cockburn, Professor of Finance and Economics at the BU School of Management. Professor Cockburn will explore the relationship between university research, drug discovery, the creation of intellectual property, the obligations and implications of tech transfer under Bayh-Dole, and the impact on the productivity of new drug development by the pharmaceutical industry.


The Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (ITEC) is a new model for entrepreneurship education, research and training that uniquely cross-channels resources from a large num­ber of schools and departments throughout Boston University. No other program provides the new entrepreneur with such a variety of opportunities for developing new technologies, products and services that meet global needs in healthcare, life sciences, alternative energy, information technologies, and other sectors.

ITEC, centered at the School of Management, is an educational resource for the entire University as well as the local, national, and international communities, providing a full range of education, training, mentoring, and networking programs and opportunities that support new entrepreneurs.

  Work Hard & Believe in What You Do

Adam DiNicola received his MBA from the BU School of Management’s part–time program in 2000. Shortly after graduation, he founded Trendline Business Analysts, LLC, to provide corporate financial planning and analysis to small and mid-size companies that don’t have an internal finance staff. Adam offers his advice to new entrepreneurs: Stay in business long enough to catch a break.

“ The new entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs without borders. They reach across industries, markets, and communities and cross language, cultural, geographic, political, and economic barriers to launch new businesses on new platforms to serve global markets. In doing so, they go above and beyond human imagination – empowering people, engaging socieities, and breaking political and geographical boundaries to build sustainable, socially responsible enterprises that solve big problems. ”