Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization Workshop for Students

Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization Workshop is going to take place on March 12, 19 & 26, 2010 at SFU Vancouver. This is my luck that I get the opportunity to attend. My interests of Technology Commercialization starts from my coop term.

I was working in IBM pacific development center as a software developer from January to September 2009 as a coop student. While working there, I got chances to talk with different specialists and professionists. It was very interesting to see how technology can actually be commercialized to a real product. I was amazed by how much management and other aspects aside from technology itself are involved to commercial product. I understand the importance of technology commercialization. Without commercialization, technology would be only in the labs, in academic papers, in textbooks, but never to our daily life to benefit us, which actually losses the meaning of innovation. For my personal career, no matter what I do after my graduation, whether to work in a company or start my own business, some insights of technology commercialization would be very helpful and even critical. However, with very little business background, I am in lack of knowledge about entrepreneurship and have always been willing to learn about it. This workshop is an excellent opportunity and I'm really looking forward to it!