Howard Community College has been awarded a three-year grant worth more than half a million dollars to bring more technology inventions to the marketplace.
"The idea is to increase the development of inventions from government-funded labs and teach people how to take an invention, analyze it and develop it," said Martha Matlick, the college's project manager for the grant.
Matlick said the inventions could include communications and diagnostic equipment. The school is overseeing implementation of the Technology Assessment Program grant, worth about $600,000.
The college is partnering with the county Economic Development Authority, Howard County Public School System, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Naval Research Laboratory.
The money will pay for a new course this fall called "Technology Transfer From Invention to the Marketplace," which is available to college and high school students.
