Graduate Students: Tech Launch Arizona Student Fellows Positions Open

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Graduate Students: Tech Launch Arizona Student Fellows Positions Open

Tech Launch Arizona
April 22, 2016

Tech Launch Arizona is responsible for protecting, marketing and negotiating licensing deals for intellectual property resulting from University research.

Interested in the business of technology transfer? We are on the lookout for promising students to join our Student Fellows Program. Openings are currently available for these paid positions.

APPLY AT WILDCAT JOBLINK, #780941

TLA Fellows work both individually and in groups with Technology Licensing Managers assisting in the assessment of new technology disclosed to the office. Specific responsibilities of technology assessment include:

  • Patent landscape research
  • Market research and commercial assessments related to the competitiveness of assigned technology and potential target licensees
  • Creation of "non-confidential summaries" for assigned technologies
  • Other duties as assigned 

Your skills and experience

This position is ideally suited for students with a technical/engineering/medical background and an interest in intellectual property. At this time, we are searching for those with expertise in engineering.

In order to apply for this position you must:

  • Commit to working a minimum of 10 hours per week during the academic semester
  • Be an engineering or science graduate student not on a research assistantship or teaching assistantship, or be a law student with a technical background (i.e. biomedical or physical science – chemistry, physics, optics or materials)
  • Be a US citizen or permanent resident
  • Have good writing and communication skills
  • Have a keen interest in technology commercialization, intellectual property and the vision moving innovations from the lab to the marketplace

Interested? Sounds like a good fit? Do you want to be an integral part of the TLA team? We want you!

APPLY AT WILDCAT JOBLINK, #780941

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