MORRISVILLE, N.C.–Innovation and commercialization firm Montie Design is hosting a two-day seminar for businesses looking for professional guidance in taking a product from concept to marketplace. The informative class, “Getting Your Product to Market 101 - How to Design, Prototype, and Manufacture Your Product” is being taught by Montie Design President Montie Roland, a product design veteran who regularly presents on product design and commercialization throughout North Carolina. (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) The innovation and commercialization experts at Montie Design have come up with a new troubleshooting tool for original equipment manufacturers to successfully identify where their products’ RFID portals can, or can’t, read tags. The new RFID Field Detector targets the presence of the 900mHz signal emitted by RFID portals with the push of a button, conveniently showing where the RFID field is strong and where it is weak through a series of seven LED lights on the ultra-thin, simple tool. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) This week, North Carolina’s advocate for nanobiotech innovation, the Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN), is co-hosting a rare opportunity for Triangle life science and technology professionals to gain access to some of the top talent on nanotechnology from across the nation representing academia, government and private sector interests. The Fourth Annual Nanotech Commercialization Conference in set to take place in Bay 7 of the American Tobacco Campus in Durham April 4-5, with high-impact networking with C-level executives, informative panels and workshops, and a wide array of expert speakers seldom found in one place. (more…)

(Morrisville, N.C.) Montie Design, an innovative concept-to-marketplace product design and development firm, has expanded its product realization toolset with the purchase of a rotational molder. The new equipment allows the firm to produce prototypes of small rotationally molded parts and follow up with limited production runs of client parts. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) President of the international strategic consulting firm F.O.C.U.S. (TM) Resources, Lea Strickland, MBA/CMA/CFM/CBM/GMC, discussed the role of private sector on commercializing government–funded research and inventions on the high-profile Washington, D.C. news show Capital Insider Friday, October 22 on News Channel 8 WJLA TV. The interview coincided with the publication of her eighth bi-weekly column on innovation and entrepreneurship issues on the award-winning national financial media outlet TheStreet.com. (more…)