Accelerating Licensees' Commercialization with Intra AND Inter-mural Collaboration

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David McFeeters-Krone

Intellectual Assets Corp.

David McFeeters-Krone is a commercialization consultant, longtime member of the FLC Program Committee, and past winner of the FLC Outstanding Service Award. He has been involved with technology transfer since the mid-1990s, serving in MIT's licensing office and later at one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) regional technology transfer centers. In the aughts, he continued his federal tech transfer work with contracts to TechLink and two of the other first Department of Defense Partnership Intermediary Agreements. Throughout the years, he has facilitated Cooperative Research and Development Agreements at Army, Navy, Air Force, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, NASA, the Department of Energy, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) labs.

McFeeters-Krone has a Physics degree from the University of Michigan, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and serves on the Small Business Administration Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee.

Most recently, McFeeters-Krone has worked heavily with NIST's Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program to connect small manufacturers to federal labs and Manufacturing USA. The program he co-developed (Center for Advanced Technology Solutions) spun out of an MEP focus on technology and the Manufacturing USA Institutes. Over the past four years, he has co-led this national pilot program to great success, helping small manufactures overcome production issues that can be solved with technology, often leading them to federal labs.