by Agnes Lenagh, UNeMed
For UNeMed, Innovation Week provides an opportunity to expose the UNMC research community to technology transfer. UNeMed needs to demonstrate that anyone can be an inventor and offer ideas to improve health.
With Innovation Week just around the corner, we sat with UNeMed staffers and chatted about Innovation Week.
Val Gunderson
Office Manager
“Anyone can be an inventor, all you need is a great idea.” – Gunderson
Q: What is your favorite memory of Innovation Week?
A: The prize drawing from the bubbling caldron (dry ice)…the effect was really neat!
Q: What one thing does everyone need to know about Innovation Week?
A: Anyone can be an inventor, all you need is a great idea.
Q: What do you hope the UNMC community will gain from attending Innovation Week?
A: The understanding of how important our innovators on campus are to UNMC and Nebraskans in general.
Q: How has innovation grown on campus?
A: With UNeMed’s guidance, I think there is a much better understanding on campus regarding the handling and protection of intellectual property and new inventions. This in turn has fostered many more ideas coming forth.
Q: What connections between innovation, strategy, and leadership do you see on campus?
A: I believe that by supporting UNMC’s inventors we are elevating our products and services and differentiating ourselves from our competitors. These innovative individuals play an important role in leadership on campus.
Q: Which Innovation Week event are you looking forward to most? Why?
A: The Awards Reception, because that means the completion of another successful innovation week and Awards Ceremony!
Join us next time when we sit down with another UNeMed staff member.
