Technology Ventures Services Group
(new name for Fall 2008)

***The TVSG is currently accepting applications for the Fall 2008 semester.  Click on the "TVSG Application/Acceptance Criteria" link below for more details.***

Also, a PowerPoint presentation with information
about the TVSG is available here.

The Technology Ventures Services Group (TVSG) is a credit-carrying course open to graduate and honors undergraduate students with diverse backgrounds in business, engineering, the sciences and law.  Undergraduate students from the Barrett Honors College and graduate students from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, W.P Carey School of Business, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences work together to assist in the commercilization and monetization of new technologies developed at ASU.  Students are guided throughout the semester by the Director of the TVSG, Eric Menkhus .

Clinic participants work closely with Arizona Technology Enterprises (AZTE), a company involved in the commercialization of technological inventions developed at Arizona State University, and technology entrepreneurs to assist with technology commercialization endeavors.

The two main goals of the TVSG are as follows:

1. To help commercialize technology.

2. To provide valuable, real-life, technology commercialization and technology entrepreneurship experience that students can build upon as their careers develop.

TVSG students are involved with creating technology assessments, performing intellectual property analyses, conducting market research and making informed recommendations to clients regarding commercialization strategies, among other tasks. Students also are provided written resources and required to attend a weekly meeting (and seminar course for law students) in which relevant issues including, but not limited to, licensing strategies, entrepreneurship and selection of business entities are discussed.

Students produce actual work products used in real-world commercialization decisions and oftentimes work directly with inventors and potential licensees.

TVSG Application/Acceptance Criteria

TVSG Structure

TVSG Projects

TVSG Donors/Sponsors