Technology Ventures Services Group

***The TVSG will accept applications for the Spring 2010 semester beginning in late October. Click on the "TVSG Application/Acceptance Criteria" link below for more details.***

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

To read the inaugural issue of Tech Ventures Voice,
the e-newsletter of the TVSG, click 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, The Honors College and graduate students from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of LawW.P Carey School of BusinessIra A. Fulton School of Engineering, and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences work together to assist in the commercialization and monetization of new technologies developed at ASU. Students are guided throughout the semester by the Director of the TVSG, Eric Menkhus .


The three main goals of the TVSG are:

1. To help entrepreneurs with their technology start-up efforts.

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

3.  To encourage a diversification of the Arizona economy by percolating high-growth technology start-up firms.

TVSG students are involved in 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 work directly with entrepreneurs and small businesses.


TVSG Application/Acceptance Criteria

TVSG Structure

TVSG Projects

TVSG Donors/Sponsors