Fusion — Curriculum — EPOM 412
Technology Commercialization — Aligning Development Requirements to Value Creation
Technology transfer as a process, examined directly: how discoveries actually move out of a research setting, through which mechanisms, and under what constraints — in both academic and industrial contexts.
- Term
- Fall 2026
- Credits
- 3
- Program
- Engineering, Innovation Management & Leadership
- Division
- Engineering Leadership & Professional Practice
- School
- Case School of Engineering
The course
The overall goal of this course is to address the process of technology transfer. It builds on an understanding of the IP management and commercialization activities that follow a new discovery, and examines specific approaches to commercializing technology through transfer — in the context of academic research and of industry research and development alike.
The course surveys the drivers that govern relevant industry standards, then works through the specific instruments available: sponsored research, licensing, and startup formation. Each carries a different distribution of control, capital, and risk, and each suits a different kind of technology at a different stage.
The course includes hands-on assessment of two case studies presenting applications of law and policy in the context of collaborative technology development. Each student team delivers a critique and an overview of how they would handle the circumstances of the case — not an analysis of what happened, but a position on what they would do.
Where it sits in the sequence
EPOM 412 runs alongside EPOM 410 in the fall and takes as its explicit subject what 410 treats as one track among six. Where the fall core course, RGME 467, culminates in a licensing simulation, this course examines the institutional machinery that makes such transactions necessary and possible in the first place.