Innovate 4 Growth Consulting - President
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Identify barriers to commercialization in regions and organizations and
recommend approaches to reduce these barriers using the Innovation
Assessment Grid™ and COF™ analysis
Identify potential applications, customers, partners, collaborators, licensees,
and commercialization strategies for new concepts
Train technology transfer professionals on how to evaluate new inventions,
find potential licensees, negotiate business terms, and manage their
intellectual property (IP) portfolios and technology transfer responsibilities
Recommend intellectual property strategies that will result in a long term
competitive advantage for the company
Advise software developers on ways to increase the value of their products for
the technology transfer community
Other Roles
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Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Business
Faculty member for the Sloan mid-career Entrepreneurship Development
Program
Judge and advisor to the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
US National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal reviewer
Lecturer to NSF grant recipients on strategic use of Intellectual Property
International Experience
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Consulting engagements in Scotland, New Zealand, Portugal, Chile, Wales,
England, Germany, Spain, Japan, and Uzbekistan.
Best practice interactions with groups from: US cities and regions, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Finland, Holland, Korea, Norway, Switzerland, Taiwan,
and Thailand
Above engagements and interactions occurred over the last 10 years
Technology Licensing Office Ambassador and Licensing Officer – MIT
to 2006
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1996
Advise MIT inventors and potential entrepreneurs about MIT intellectual
property, technology transfer practices, and resources for startups; provider
of appropriate contacts to these entrepreneurs
Judge in “The MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition”
Evaluate funding proposals for the Deshpande Center, proof of concept fund
Lecture at M.I.T. on intellectual property related issues for various M.I.T.
courses and work with external groups interested in benchmarking MIT
practices for commercialization of inventions
Manage the evaluation, prosecution, maintenance, marketing, and licensing of
approximately seven hundred different invention portfolios in the materials,
chemicals, instruments, medical device and bio/pharmacy areas
o One quarter of the licenses were to startups, one third were to major
multinationals, and the remaining to companies of all different sizes
Interacted with over 100 successful U.S. technology based startups during the
above roles at MIT
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University of Cambridge Technology Transfer Office, Cambridge, England,
exchange of best practices, October 2003
Prior to 1996
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Steve was the Assistant Dean for External Partnerships at the School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences at University of Pennsylvania. There he was
responsible for helping the departments create their strategic plans and for
building relationships with external organizations important to the school’s
educational and research mission.
At Arco Chemical, Steve was a Commercial Development Manager with
responsibility for a commercialization team that developed a composites
program from lab inception to approval by two major auto manufacturers.
Previously he revamped Arco’s National Distributor Sales Program.
Earlier in his career he worked for Dow Chemical in a variety of research,
development, sales, marketing, and business management positions.
In 1979, Steve was selected to be a President's Executive Interchange
Executive and served at the Small Business Administration where he helped
to streamline their bank loan process, revise their energy loan program for
high technology startups, and lobbied for the agency before the US Congress.
Education
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Princeton University – AB Chemistry
Oundle School, England - English Speaking Union Exchange Scholar
Tabor Academy - General Excellence in Scholarship Award
Personal
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Married with two grown daughters
Enjoy sports (triathlons, rowing, sailing, skiing, squash, tennis,), travel,
politics, history, literature
Contact
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Steve Brown, Innovate4Growth Consulting, https://i4gc.pbwiki.com/-Starthere
Outside the US click on http://i4gc.pbwiki.com/-Start-here
275 Jerusalem Rd., Cohasset, MA 02025
+1-781-383-9699, sfbrown67@gmail.com or sfbrown@mit.edu