{"id":36676,"date":"2021-05-24T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=36676"},"modified":"2021-06-03T08:39:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:39:30","slug":"jen-skellum-helps-faculty-monetize-and-protect-their-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/jen-skellum-helps-faculty-monetize-and-protect-their-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Skjellum helps faculty monetize and protect their work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" data-attachment-id=\"36678\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/jen-skellum-helps-faculty-monetize-and-protect-their-work\/skjellum\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/skjellum.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,599\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"skjellum\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/skjellum.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-36678\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/skjellum.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/skjellum.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/skjellum-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/skjellum-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/skjellum-580x386.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/skjellum-610x406.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/skjellum-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/skjellum-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">As commercialization coordinator, Jen Skjellum highlightsthe research and innovation taking place at UTC.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Soubantika Palchoudhury had developed a new, more potent plant fertilizer and wanted to market it.<\/p>\n<p>An assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Chemical Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, she filed a patent request, working with the University of Tennessee Research Foundation. With patent approval likely, she wanted to establish a startup company to handle business affairs, but she wasn\u2019t quite sure how to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Skjellum stepped in to help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy focus was on connecting her to additional resources that could help expand her business skills and knowledge and further assist with commercialization of the product,\u201d Skjellum said.<\/p>\n<p>The first commercialization counselor at UTC, Skjellum steers faculty through the process of taking their ideas, research, devices and developments off the campus and into the wider market.<\/p>\n<p>She works with them to find opportunities to pitch their ideas to potential investors and collaborators. She connects them with organizations that can help develop a marketing plan or build a website.<\/p>\n<p>She also makes sure the final contracts are written in a way that protects the faculty member\u2019s interests, both now and in future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey need first to realize that they have intellectual property, and they need to think about protecting it and think that what they&#8217;re doing has longer-term applicability or impact,\u201d Skjellum said.<\/p>\n<p>For Palchoudhury, Skjellum directed her to various people and organizations to help her create her company as well as market the fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI designed a new nanofertilizer technology for enhanced growth of food and bioenergy crops,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Jennifer has been a great mentor for me on the entrepreneurial aspects. She has given me key advice on the path from lab to market. For example, I participated in the Innovation Open Mic Pitch event and the LaunchTN Bundled initiative to bring our technology a step closer to practical application.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skjellum was hired for the brand-new commercial coordinator position because it\u2019s time to highlight the research and innovation taking place at UTC, according to Joanne Romagni, vice chancellor for research at the University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are growing up. We need someone to help our faculty realize their intellectual property and help them through the process,\u201d Romagni said.<\/p>\n<p>Numbers show it\u2019s working.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have increased our patent applications 700% since she came,\u201d Romagni said.<\/p>\n<p>Skjellum has a background in bringing different groups together to build a larger whole. In 2012, she was hired as president of TechBirmingham, a nonprofit that connected the Alabama city\u2019s tech startups and existing companies with corporations and others for investment funds and support.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018\u2014after moving to Chattanooga with her husband, SimCenter Director Tony Skjellum\u2014she was hired as director of programs and managing director of the HealthTech Accelerator at Co.Lab, the local organization that conducts the same kind of work as TechBirmingham.<\/p>\n<p>Skjellum brought that knowledge to UTC, although the University offers different challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty members may be laser-focused on research\u2014both theirs or their students\u2019\u2014or teaching or writing and publishing articles in professional journals, she explained. With that in the forefront in their minds, they may miss chances\u2014or not see them at all\u2014 to patent or license or copyright their work, Skjellum said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey may not be really thinking bigger picture, and that&#8217;s one of the things I try to help them with. Where can this go? What&#8217;s the bigger use of this? How far can we expand it?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of that is they haven&#8217;t necessarily been trained to think that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of her goals also is to show the Chattanooga community and beyond that interesting and groundbreaking research is taking place at UTC and not just in engineering, computer science and other disciplines usually associated with research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s probably a misperception that the hard sciences are more likely to be in that category, but I&#8217;m trying to get everyone to think about what they&#8217;re doing in terms of: How can what I&#8217;ve created in the lab, or even if it&#8217;s a process, be turned into something more impactful and bigger?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes it&#8217;s just, \u2018Hey, I noticed you&#8217;ve completed this proposal application, and you indicated that you might have a patent or you might have an invention disclosure here.\u2019 Helping them tease out what is it that they&#8217;re working on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s unearthed research going on here, and the intellectual capital on this campus is impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jen Skjellum is the first commercialization counselor at UTC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/jen-skellum-helps-faculty-monetize-and-protect-their-work\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":37001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7712,64,48007,781],"tags":[117216,117215],"class_list":{"0":"post-36676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-faculty-and-staff","9":"category-news","10":"category-research-academics","11":"category-scholarship","12":"tag-commercializaton-coordinator","13":"tag-jen-skjellum","14":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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