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As director of the Technology Transfer Office at Dartmouth College, Nila Bhakuni manages intellectual property that originates from the college and helps faculty bring innovative products to market. Before moving to the Upper Valley in 2015, Bhakuni served In the same position at Rice University in Houston and as a technology licensing associate at Harvard University and licensing officer at Carnegie Mellon University.
Q. What is the focus of your work?
A. I typically get involved with supporting research and filing patents. A lot of the conversations I have are helping faculty, staff and students vet ideas, deciding whether they should be patented and supporting them with other research contracts they may need to conduct, and talking about how that will affect their research goals or commercialization goals.
Q. What are some examples of ideas that are coming out of Dartmouth?
A. The MVP [Mobile Virtual Player] started as a design project in the Thayer School of Engineering. They created a dummy that they program, the tackling dummy, and they use it to prevent...