Summary
Dr. Gruetzmacher is the founder and principal of TechIAConnect & Associates, a business development and technology transfer consulting firm and an associate of IntellectualAssets, Inc., a consulting firm in Saratoga, California. He has over 30 years of industrial experience working at DuPont in multiple functions across a broad range of responsibilities, life and physical sciences, both hands-on and in senior leadership positions. During the last 15 years of his tenure he provided corporate leadership on extracting value from intellectual capital focusing on intellectual asset management, licensing, technology transfer, IP valuation, negotiation, university collaborations, and open innovation implementation strategies. Following retirement from DuPont he served as an independent consultant for Rutgers University’s Office of Technology Commercialization, managing their physical science, engineering, and IT patent portfolios, seeking licensing and collaborative opportunities with industry. Some current and past clients include the University of California at Riverside, Syngenta Biotech, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Southeastern Pennsylvanian, the Larta Institute, IdeaConnection, and the Plastic and Rubber Training and Research Institute, ICIPC Colombia
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