Start Up Guide
Investigator's Guide to Starting a Company
This guide provides a roadmap for faculty and students who are thinking about starting a technology company, providing a comprehensive framework for thoroughly evaluating this important decision.
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INVO would like to give grateful acknowledgment to the University of Georgia for permission to use material from "Start-Ups for Smarties: A Primer for the UGA Investigator on Forming a New Company Based on Your Research Discovery." We have drawn heavily on their well-constructed and effective handbook, and it served as an invaluable guide for this publication.
Guidelines: Formation of Northwestern University Faculty-Initiated Startup Companies
This guide provides a detailed overview of important considerations which are necessary to create a startup company based on technology developed at Northwestern. It contains information on the licensing and disclosure processes, management team structure, suggested business plan formats and other required decisions that need to be made by founders. It also contains links to specific Northwestern policies relevant to startup companies.
