Jim Vance is Program Manager of The University of Texas at Austin’s Global Commercialization Group, IC2 Institute, one of the world’s premiere centers for innovation strategy and technology commercialization.
Jim oversees technology commercialization programs in locations around the world and is an expert in the development of large-scale technology assessment systems. As an innovation strategist and coach, Jim works with tech entrepreneurs, innovators and government officials around the globe to help solve some of their challenges through global competitiveness.
He has trained hundreds of innovators, examined over 600 technologies from practically every area of science, and uncovered and helped commercialize a number of extraordinary innovations.