Pittaway talks about entrepreneurship with science faculty
Recently, the Director for the Center for Entrepreneurial Learning and Leadership and also entrepreneurship professor, Dr. Luke Pittaway gave a presentation to Georgia Southern University faculty of the College of Science and Mathematics (COSM) regarding entrepreneurship and commercialization. Associate Dean of COSM Dr. Karen Scarpinato requested the lecture of Pittaway in hopes of further developing her faculty’s knowledge of this area.
“The reason for [this lecture] is that we are missing out on several opportunities, since our faculty is not aware or know enough about commercialization,” Scarpinato said. Pittaway explained that faculty and students in COSM may come up with some technology, but many do not realize the entrepreneurial opportunities that accompany it. “By giving them this presentation, I was able to help them understand what they need to do in order to protect their inventions,” Pittaway said.
Some topics covered during the presentation included embedding entrepreneurship education, protecting intellectual property (IP), and the University’s IP policy. “We were really able to learn about the different ways to protect intellectual property and incorporation of commercialization in the curriculum,” said Scarpinato. “He covered a lot of detail in a short period of time.”
Some of the COSM faculty shared particular ideas they were currently working on with Pittaway. He has already had several follow-up conversations with them about their products and plans to continue to assist in any way he can.
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