CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

The W2B has become a clearinghouse for regional commercialization information that is available to innovators and companies alike to advance technologies to the marketplace... LED BY THE UMKC INNOVATION CENTER, a National Science Foundation Partnership for Innovation grant created the Whiteboard 2 Boardroom® program (W2B) as a partnership between four regional schools - UMKC, University of Kansas, Johnson County Community College and William Jewell College. It has since expanded to include numerous academic and research institutions in the bi-state region. W2B is a team effort that includes research partners that provide the new technologies, a technology transfer office that collects technologies from research partners and helps with initial assessment and IP issues, entrepreneurs with a depth of expertise and experience in different technical domains that utilize a variety of business models, W2B staff members that serve as "match-makers", and service providers such as the SBTDC and..

Primary location: Kansas City United States