If you’ve been to college, you’ll know that although colleges are ostensibly places where students get an education, the teaching staff do not spend a majority of their day teaching. What, exactly, you might wonder, do college professors do all day?

Well, one thing they do is research. And sometimes that research can turn into more than just an article in an academic journal.

Many universities now have a department called Technology Transfer. Folks in the Technology Transfer department take the ideas that professors and researchers have, and turn these ideas into commercial products.

For example, the Office of Technology Transfer at Tulane University has commercialized a diagnostic test for Lyme disease, an obstetric device that cuts and clamps the umbilical cord, and a mosquito trap. Among many others.

The Executive Director of the Office of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Development at Tulane University is John Christie.

There’s an even more specialized approach to technology transfer at LSU, where it is broken into smaller divisions.

In Baton Rouge, LSU has a big, and very successful, tech transfer department.

Here in New Orleans, the LSU Health Services Center has its own department dedicated to technology transfer.

the LSU Health Services Center Office of Technology Transfer Management commercializes research that comes out of the medical school, as well as the departments of nursing, public health and dentistry.

The Director of the LSU Health Services Center Office of Technology Transfer Management is Patrick Reed.

If each one of us listening to this conversation had a dollar for every great idea we’ve had - we’d probably each have about ten bucks. It’s one thing to think you’ve got a great idea. It’s another thing to actually have a great idea. But it’s something of a whole other magnitude to turn an idea into an invention that makes money.

Photos from this show at Commander's Palace by Jill Lafleur,  are at our website.

You can find more brilliant ideas at The Idea Village.

 

If you&rsquo;ve been to college, you&rsquo;ll know that although colleges are ostensibly places where students get an education, the teaching staff do not spend a majority of their day teaching.&nbsp;What, exactly, you might wonder, do college professors do all day?
Well, one thing they do is research. And sometimes that research can turn into more than just an article in an academic journal.
Many universities now have a department called Technology Transfer. Folks in the Technology Transfer department take the ideas that professors and researchers have, and turn these ideas into commercial products.
For example, the <a href="https://research.tulane.edu/ott">Office of Technology Transfer at Tulane University</a> has commercialized a diagnostic test for Lyme disease, an obstetric device that cuts and clamps the umbilical cord, and a mosquito trap. Among many others.
The Executive Director of the Office of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Development at Tulane University is John Christie.
There&rsquo;s an even more specialized approach to technology transfer at LSU, where it is broken into smaller divisions.
In Baton Rouge, LSU has a big, and very successful, tech transfer department.
Here in New Orleans, the LSU Health Services Center has its own department dedicated to technology transfer.
the <a href="https://www.lsuhsc.edu/administration/academic/otm/">LSU Health Services Center Office of Technology Transfer Management</a> commercializes research that comes out of the medical school, as well as the departments of nursing, public health and dentistry.
The Director of the LSU Health Services Center Office of Technology Transfer Management is Patrick Reed.
If each one of us listening to this conversation had a dollar for every great idea we&rsquo;ve had - we&rsquo;d probably each have about ten bucks.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s one thing to think you&rsquo;ve got a great idea. It&rsquo;s another thing to actually have a great idea. But it&rsquo;s something of a whole other magnitude to turn an idea into an invention that makes money.
Photos from this show at <a href="https://www.commanderspalace.com/">Commander's Palace</a> by <a href="https://www.lafleurphoto.com">Jill Lafleur</a>,&nbsp; are at our website.
You can find more brilliant ideas at <a href="https://itsneworleans.com/2019/06/27/trust-your-crazy-ideas-out-to-lunch-its-new-orleans/">The Idea Village</a>.
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OUT TO LUNCH finds economist and Tulane finance professor Peter Ricchiuti conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch at Commander’s Palace restaurant. In his 9th year in the host seat, Ricchiuti’s learned but uniquely NOLA informal perspective has established Out to Lunch as the voice of Crescent City business. You can also hear the show on WWNO 89.9FM.

OUT TO LUNCH finds economist and Tulane finance professor Peter Ricchiuti conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch at Commander&rsquo;s Palace restaurant. In his 9th year in the host seat, Ricchiuti&rsquo;s learned but uniquely NOLA informal perspective has established Out to Lunch as the voice of Crescent City business. You can also hear the show on WWNO 89.9FM.

Tulane finance professor Peter Ricchiuti conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch at Commander's Palace restaurant.

It's New Orleans: Out to Lunch

OUT TO LUNCH finds the country's most entertaining finance professor Peter Ricchiuti conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch. Each week Peter invites guests from the New Orleans business world to join him, sometimes for fine dining others for pizza. From CEO's to startups, managers, musicians, biomed needle-movers, Silicon Bayou success stories and entrepreneurs of all stripes put aside the elevator pitch and the talking points and actually enjoy themselves. It's business, New Orleans style. 
You can also hear the show on WWNO 89.9FM.

OUT TO LUNCH finds the country's most entertaining finance professor <a href="https://freeman.tulane.edu/faculty-research/finance/peter-ricchiuti">Peter Ricchiuti </a>conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch. Each week Peter invites guests from the New Orleans business world to join him, sometimes for fine dining others for pizza. From CEO's to startups, managers, musicians, biomed needle-movers, Silicon Bayou success stories and entrepreneurs of all stripes put aside the elevator pitch and the talking points and actually enjoy themselves. It's business, New Orleans style. You can also hear the show on <a href="https://www.wwno.org/show/out-to-lunch">WWNO 89.9FM</a>.

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