During this week’s webinar, AnitaB.org CEO and President Brenda Darden Wilkerson moderated a discussion focused on “Diversifying Invention & Innovation,” with expert industry leaders Susan M. Armstrong, Senior Vice President, Engineering at Qualcomm; Joseph W. Jasper Jr., Attorney & Consultant; Holly Fechner, Partner at Covington & Burling LLP; and Sheila Lehr, Director & Senior Counsel at Discover Financial Services.
Watch the full recording below. Scroll down to see our list of resources to help you connect, learn, and find support.
| Resource | Link | Participant |
| NASA Technology Transfer Centers | https://spinoff.nasa.gov/
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Natasha Green |
| United States Patent and Trademark Office site | https://www.uspto.gov/ | Natasha Green |
| Why Businesses Back Innovation Centers article | https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/05/why-businesses-back-innovation-centers/ | Natasha Green |
| Success Act 2018 report
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https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/USPTOSuccessAct.pdf | Leah |
| New research suggests early exposure to innovation is more effective than financial incentives in stimulating innovation article | https://equitablegrowth.org/new-research-suggests-early-exposure-to-innovation-is-more-effective-than-financial-incentives-in-stimulating-innovation | Jill Finlayson |
| First House IP Subcommittee Hearing of 116th Congress Addresses Ways to Increase Female Inventorship | https://ipwatchdog.com/2019/04/03/first-house-ip-subcommittee-hearing-116th-congress-addresses-ways-increase-female-inventorship/id=107936 | Jill Finlayson |
| UC Berkeley’s Office of Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA) | https://ipira.berkeley.edu/ | Jill Finlayson |
| Special, Non-Exclusive, Royalty-Free Intellectual Property License for COVID-19 Research and Development and Commercialization | https://ipira.berkeley.edu/special-non-exclusive-royalty-free-intellectual-property-license-covid-19-research-and-development | Jill Finlayson |
| UK Patents & Intellectual Property | https://www.gov.uk/topic/intellectual-property/patents | |
| Why women of color are less likely to get patents article | https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-women-of-color-are-less-likely-to-get-patents-2018-07-25-1488239 | Jill Finlayson |
| The Gender Patenting Gap article | https://iwpr.org/iwpr-general/the-gender-patenting-gap/ | Jill Finlayson |
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