Triple Helix Innovation offers consulting services and custom reports to help universities improve and evolve their innovation strategies. Our services are versatile and we’re happy to discuss your unique needs with you. Examples of previous work include:
- Provide expert advice on university innovation strategy to university technology commercialization practitioners, businesses, regional governments and entrepreneurs
- Write and research custom, confidential reports and executive-ready presentations that assess the unique strengths of university technology transfer units; our reports include quantitative and qualitative assessments of a university’s patent portfolio, stack rankings of comparable institutions, discovery of untapped regional economic development opportunities and the technology transfer unit’s brand effectiveness
- Offer consulting services to university administrations and regional economic development agencies on university technology transfer processes, intellectual property policies and commercialization strategies
- Calculate the technology transfer health indexes of university patent portfolios; Melba Kurman created the concept of technology transfer health indexes
- Write about trends in university technology commercialization strategy to a worldwide readership on the popular Tech Transfer 2.0 blog
- Teach seminars to scientists, VCs and corporate R&D staff on university technology transfer strategies, including best practices in startup formation, licensing and marketing
- Author articles upon request; research and write commissioned reports and books on emerging game-changing technologies; our target reader is a non-technical audience to ensure maximal broad impact for our clients
Melba Kurman, the president and founder of Triple Helix Innovation, is a writer, analyst, veteran marketer and innovation strategist. She has over 17 years of first-hand experience in industry product development and university technology transfer at Microsoft and Cornell University. She in an expert in forward-thinking business strategies for emerging university technologies and university IP management. In addition to university innovation strategy, Melba writes about the social, economic and intellectual property potential (and challenges) of emerging technologies, most notably 3D printing.
See more detail about Melba’s written publications, or recent talks and interviews.
Download Melba’s resume here.
