Joseph Llano, Stevens doctoral candidate, wins award

HOBOKEN , N.J. — Joseph Llano, a doctoral candidate in Stevens Institute of Technology’s Technology Management program at The Howe School of Technology Management was a winner of a technology commercialization launch plan competition held at West Liberty State College in West Virginia .

West Liberty is home of The Emerging Minority Business Leaders (EMBL) Summer Institute, a challenging two-week executive-style entrepreneurial training and technology transfer program, is a federally funded program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce and administered by the West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation.

Llano was recognized among a national pool of applicants and was further selected to receive an award to attend the summer institute to enhance his current interest in technology entrepreneurship. The program involved six groups of students acquiring technology/invention from a federal laboratory to create a launch plan for commercial application. The launch plans were presented to and evaluated by a panel of judges representing government, university and the new-venture community. Llano’s team, Weight Mate, placed second at the competition as they identified technology and a means to exploit the market opportunity that would better address the phenomena of people not staying committed to their weight management goals. Llano is currently investigating success factors for university-wide entrepreneurial learning environments as the research domain for his doctoral dissertation.

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Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University, is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,234 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with more than 400 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.

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