Research Liaison & Development (RL&D)

Research Innovation & Entrepreneurship

UMass Amherst faculty and student researchers generate the discoveries, technologies and ideas that drive innovation. Listed below are some of the resources and services available to campus innovators and entrepreneurs. If you are are an entrepreneurial technologist and member of the UMass community, make sure to first familiarize yourself with the University's guidelines for protecting your discoveries.

RL&D welcomes submissions to this resource list.

UMass Amherst Web

• Commercial Venture and Intellectual Property (CVIP) Office
• $50K Technology Innovation Challenge
• UMass Entrepreneurship Initiative
• A Researchers' Guide to Selling Your Innovation
• Biomedical Innovation Laboratory
• Course in Technology Management: Innovation & Entrepreneurship [PDF]
• Course in Technology Business Planning
• James Theroux, Professor of Entrepreneurship
• Soren Bisgaard, Professor of Integrative Studies

Take Action

• Contact CVIP to learn more about protecting and strengthening your IP
• Contact RL&D to learn more about campus services for technology entrepreneurs
• Join the UMass Amherst Research Access Mailing List
• Join the EntreClub mailing list to get announcements of important entrepreneurship events, contest, and deadlines

External Web

• Young Entreprenurs Society (YES) of Western Massachusetts
• STCC Student Business Incubator
• Massachusetts Small Business Development Centers
• Western Massachusetts Enterprise Fund
• Regional Technology Corporation (Western Mass)
  • Bio Economic Technology Alliance (BETA)
  • Technology Enterprise Council (TEC)
  • Materials and Manufacturing Technology Network (MMTN)
• Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
• MassDevelopment
• National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• The Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation
• U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
• Free online entrepreneurship courses from the SBA
• Collegiate Entreprenuers Organization
• Entreprenuer.com
• Entrepreneurship.com

Books

• The World is Flat
• Open Innovation
• The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money  
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials)
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
• The Innovator's Dilemma
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed.
• Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

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