Innovation Overground: How university biomedical research & innovation make...
Hosts Charlie Litton, Joe Runge and Tyler Scherr begin the Innovation Overground podcast series by busting a few technology transfer myths, and discuss some misunderstood aspects of commercializing...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Tech transfer 101 & leadership
Leading leaders and leaderly things they do. Maybe. The Overground hosts discuss what it means to be a leader within the university technology transfer arena, highlight some ways in which UNeMed tries...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: The CRISPR episode
Everyone has a take on CRISPR. Join the Overground crew as they provide a brief overview of CRISPR and its current limits on curing diseases and creating rampaging supervillains. The trio then discuss...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: A fistful of yardsticks
Some inventors must innovate to innovate. Sounds like gibberish, but the Overground crew explains that medical innovations sometimes require new measurements and models. Listen in as they share the...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Why hasn't anyone invented this before?
The bounds of the human imagination are limitless and so is the scope of what we can create. Despite that, Tyler details how applied 3D printing makes small, iterative inventions much more feasible....
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Fourth time's the charm
We know science is hard but, man, science is hard. Tyler discusses the difficulty of reproducing results, especially in biological research. Joe dishes on a technology that is reliably reproducible in...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Biomechanics can save football
The best ideas often come from...somewhere else. The Overground crew discuss how good inventions become great through better collaboration. Joe tells the story of Avert, a startup that simplifies...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: The Long Game
Innovation is made of little, broken plastic parts. The Overground crew discuss Joe’s favorite thing: the long game of commercializing university inventions. Joe then recounts the story of the...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Match-Making
Ideas are great, but sometimes the best inventions happen when you lock the right people in a windowless room for a few hours. The Overground crew discusses what happens when curated relationships help...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: You can't patent you, obviously
It turns out the most precious invention is you – but someone already thought of it. The Overground crew glove up and peel apart the icky issues: gene patents, personalized medicine and Michael...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Biomechanics is the future
Biomechanics is the next big thing. Skeptical? How about using biomechanics to make affordable 3D-printed prosthetics for children. Or what about using biomechanics to revolutionize the world’s fifth...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Spectacular fails and cautionary tales
Fail, fail, fail, fail... fail. Maybe failure is too harsh of a term. The Overground crew discuss what startups learn in failure: relationships, strategy and how to do it better the next time....
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Picking winners
The market wants what the market wants. The trick to picking winners from losers in technology transfer is to let the market pick them for you. The Overground crew discuss the surprising results of...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Authors, Inventors, students and bosses
When they asked you when Innovation Overground finally figured itself out you tell them, "Episode 14." The Overground crew uses its newfound charisma and chemistry to dissect Charlie’s beef with his...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Sick lift, brah
The Overground welcomes its first-ever guest: Dr. Michael Dixon. He tells the tale of Creatine Ethyl Ester—an actual thing, actually produced in Nebraska that you can buy from a store shelf...today....
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Basement anesthesiology or garage science
The internet has made education a little weird. Barriers of distance and resources are crumbling around us. So, if anyone can learn to be a mechanic or a therapist or a surgeon, then how do you know...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Anyone can cook up a happy accident
A great invention can come from anywhere, and sometimes not on purpose. As the wise and powerful Bob Ross once said: “There are no mistakes in this world, only happy accidents.” The Overground crew...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Actual things
The Overground takes a moment to discuss an example of what Universities should aspire to: Creating actual things that touch people’s lives. Jonathan Vennerstrom, Ph.D., invented a new formulation for...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Bacterial Dilemma
We live in a brief moment where bacterial infections do not routinely kill people...which is coming to a close. Each day, the medicines we use to treat bacterial infection are getting a little less...
View ArticleInnovation Overground: Get over Thomas Edison already!
The obvious common thread between batteries and English muffins is, of course, contact lenses. An unusually high-energy Joe unravels that mystery after whining about battery chemistry and how it...
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