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Skills

  • Innovation Consulting
  • Analytics
  • Business Development
  • Business Innovation
  • Business Models
  • Creative
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship Education
  • Help Desk
  • Innovation
  • Licensing
  • Mentoring
  • Outsourcing Consulting
  • Training

Services

  • Technology Scouting, External Business

    $300/hr Starting at $25 Ongoing

    Dedicated Resource

    Our target audience for these services is an internal innovation or technology scouting group. We provide continuous support and outsourcing capabilities as well as actual search for technologies and...

    CreativeHelp DeskInnovation ConsultingOutsourcing Consulting

  • COMMERCIALIZATION SUPPORT

    $300/hr Starting at $25 Ongoing

    Dedicated Resource

    Technology transfer services are offered to Universities, research organizations and corporate clients. We offer full support from evaluation, market assessment and feasibility studies to marketing and...

    Business DevelopmentBusiness InnovationBusiness ModelsInnovation ConsultingLicensing

  • TRAINING AND ANALYTICS

    $300/hr Starting at $25 Ongoing

    Dedicated Resource

    We offer highly customizable training courses and seminars on technology transfer, scouting, and management as well as mentoring and advisement to startups. Our Analytics - proposals and invention disclosures...

    AnalyticsEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship EducationInnovationMentoring

About

Innovation Guru. Technology Scouting. Commercialization Assistance. Coaching. Mentoring.

Open Innovation, Technology Transfer, Commercialization, Scouting & Business Development.

Dr. Buff's career path could be described as transition from being a pure theorist as a scientist to a 100% practitioner and consultant. Eugene is an MD/PhD in Genetics, with over a dozen publications in peer reviewed journals. He is also a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP) and Registered Technology Transfer Professional (RTTP). His innovation and technology transfer consulting company provides strategy support and matchmaking between large and small companies across industries and geographies. Eugene’s clients include many of Fortune 500s, startups, Universities, incubators, accelerators, and occasional individual inventors. Since 2015 he also teaches "Customer Driven Technical Innovation for Engineers" course for Entrepreneurship minor at Northeastern University.

Specialties:
• Technology Scouting and Acquisitions
• Commercialization Assistance
• Deal Making (Licensing Consulting)
• Market Analysis
• Technology Positioning and Marketing
• IP (Intellectual Property) Management and Valuation
• Open Innovation Consulting
• Due Diligence

Work Terms

Hourly or fixed fee retainer (no success fees or contingency!)