Issue: ORN-2026-26

Announcement: Only A Few Seats Left

Do You Want to Know How to Build Partnerships for Innovation Translation to Commercialization and Get Investment Funding?

Do You Want to Network with Potential Investors, Innovators and Successful Entrepreneurs? 

Join Us at the

CTR 2026 Translational Research and Innovation Badge Workshop

Value Creation and Partnerships in Innovation Ecosystems: Translation Validation, Entrepreneurship and Commercialization

Sponsored by 

NSF ART (Accelerating Research Translation) Program at NJIT

National Academy of Inventor (NAI) – NJIT Chapter 

Date and Venue: July 13-14, 2026, Atrium, Student Campus Center, NJIT

(Breakfast and Lunch will be provided on both days.)

Faculty, Post-docs and Students are Welcome

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Attendees of the CTR Workshop will receive “Completion Trophy and NJIT Digital Badge Certificate with Up to 12 Professional Development Hours (PDH) Credits after competition.

Registration Required by June 30, 2026 

Please Register using CTR Translational Research Badge Workshop Registration Form  

Brief Description: The Center for Translational Research is committed to promoting excellence in collaborative research, innovation partnerships, entrepreneurial pathways, education, training and infrastructure development to translate technology into applications with a high societal and economic impact. To follow up on the CTR mission to enhance the research, innovation and technology entrepreneurship ecosystem at NJIT, we have initiated a series of CTR workshops on Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer in Translational Research for Value Creation to enhance our understanding and facilitate pathways to innovation partnerships and value creation. The CTR badge work will provide faculty, postdocs and students an opportunity to interact with experts on early and advanced translational research, tech transfer, licensing and creating partnerships-based start-ups for entrepreneurial and commercialization activities.

Why You Should Attend: The CTR workshop agenda will bring key stakeholder groups including academic innovators, industry, government and community leaders to focus on understanding their perspectives and expectations on developing and sustaining partnerships-based value creation roadmap for technology translation from lab to market. 

The workshop will provide a unique forum of “Reverse Pitch Presentations” from successful entrepreneurs to learn about innovation translation and value creation for commercialization (please see the session protocol details with interactive participation of faculty and students in the agenda below). The start-up industry presentations will be followed by open discussion on understanding the importance of value based effective communication to stakeholders for securing investment funding.  

Also, an experienced professional team from VentureWell will present a special interactive workshop session to understand various funder perspectives and alignment with business stage of startups, and investor perspectives and elements of a successful value proposition. Throughout the workshop, attendees will have opportunities to learn and discuss challenges and pathways to innovation translation and validation towards potential commercialization for societal benefits and economic impact.  

Who Should Attend: Faculty, research staff, undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs and external partners who are pursuing or are interested in understanding pathways to translational research and innovation partnerships-based value creation for technology translation to use-inspired applications and societal impact should attend and would be benefited from the badge workshop. 

The CTR badge workshop is required to all innovators and principal investigators funded by CTR translational research seed grants including TITA and CERT seed grants. Faculty who are planning to submit TITA or CERT seed grant proposals should attend as they will have the opportunity to network with TITA external advisory board members and learn value creation and investment presentation tactics from successful entrepreneurs. 

For Final Program and Addition Information – Click Here