This fall, the School of Law and the Weatherhead School of Management will launch “FUSION,” a graduate-level certificate program that blends legal, scientific, and management disciplines to guide graduate students of different academic backgrounds through the complex path of identifying and cultivating the commercial potential of scientific discovery to bring inventions and technology to the marketplace.

MBA, JD, and PhD students in the sciences and engineering can now register for courses in the newly approved university-wide Graduate Certificate in Design, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management.

“This nationally distinctive, interdisciplinary program will prepare our students to become leaders in the field of innovation management,” says law professor Craig A. Nard, a founding faculty member of “FUSION,” and the Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law.

“In the Fusion program, we address the commercialization of scientific inventions – from early discovery to proof of concept, to final product,” says Joe Jankowski, Ph.D., Associate Vice President in the Technology Transfer Office at Case Western Reserve University. “For example, students learn to analyze a life-science business opportunity from a multi-disciplinary perspective. They construct business models that consider potential market impacts, competitive environments and ethical and social implications that often drive the potential for acceptance by healthcare practitioners.”

The program’s core objectives are to enhance the potential success of students in their careers, providing the skills and confidence needed to make sound, creative decisions regarding the strategic potential of complex intellectual property and technology opportunities. The program allows our graduates to hit the ground running and be highly competitive in the world of innovation and technology commercialization.

To earn the “FUSION” certificate, graduate students must take four of the six courses offered in the program. All certificate students must take: (1) “Intellectual Property Management & Opportunity Assessment,” and (2) “Technology Commercialization.” Both of these courses are cross-listed at the law school and Weatherhead School of Management. Students can then choose either : (1) the two semester course: “Design in Management: Concepts and Methods of Practice,” which is offered at the School of Management or (2) “Design and Creativity,” which is paired with “Faculty- or Alumnus-based Project Focused Upon Social Entrepreneurship or Technology-Based Economic Development.”

Watch the video about the “FUSION” program below, or click here

This fall, the School of Law and the Weatherhead School of Management will launch “FUSION,” a graduate-level certificate program that blends legal, scientific, and management disciplines to guide graduate students of different academic backgrounds through the complex path of identifying and cultivating the commercial potential of scientific discovery to bring inventions and technology to the marketplace.

MBA, JD, and PhD students in the sciences and engineering can now register for courses in the newly approved university-wide Graduate Certificate in Design, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management.

“This nationally distinctive, interdisciplinary program will prepare our students to become leaders in the field of innovation management,” says law professor Craig A. Nard, a founding faculty member of “FUSION,” and the Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law.

“In the Fusion program, we address the commercialization of scientific inventions – from early discovery to proof of concept, to final product,” says Joe Jankowski, Ph.D., Associate Vice President in the Technology Transfer Office at Case Western Reserve University. “For example, students learn to analyze a life-science business opportunity from a multi-disciplinary perspective. They construct business models that consider potential market impacts, competitive environments and ethical and social implications that often drive the potential for acceptance by healthcare practitioners.”

The program’s core objectives are to enhance the potential success of students in their careers, providing the skills and confidence needed to make sound, creative decisions regarding the strategic potential of complex intellectual property and technology opportunities. The program allows our graduates to hit the ground running and be highly competitive in the world of innovation and technology commercialization.

To earn the “FUSION” certificate, graduate students must take four of the six courses offered in the program. All certificate students must take: (1) “Intellectual Property Management & Opportunity Assessment,” and (2) “Technology Commercialization.” Both of these courses are cross-listed at the law school and Weatherhead School of Management. Students can then choose either : (1) the two semester course: “Design in Management: Concepts and Methods of Practice,” which is offered at the School of Management or (2) “Design and Creativity,” which is paired with “Faculty- or Alumnus-based Project Focused Upon Social Entrepreneurship or Technology-Based Economic Development.”

Watch the video about the “FUSION” program below, or click here