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Mastering the gray zone

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For high-tech companies, business success is all about mastering the gray zone – that area of the company where business, engineering, science, and technologies converge.  TLI programs and activities help high-tech professionals, managers, and leaders grow their businesses by showing them ways to explore and maximize growth in the gray zone.

TLI’s skill set includes technology foresight and forecasting, innovation, strategic management of technology, new product and business development, science and technology policy, and intellectual property.  With an eye on helping high-tech firms maximize their growth potential, TLI shows high-tech companies how to move more adeptly within the gray zone by exploring ways to

• map technology strategies
• maximize intellectual property assets
• marshal technologies
• stimulate innovation
• commercialize ideas

We take an in-depth, integrated approach that works in the relentless world of high-tech business.  Check us out. If you’re a pacesetter within the high-tech community, you’ll find that TLI has programs, activities, and services for your gray-zone challenges.

MORE ABOUT TLI

A successful future starts with today's choices. Choose smart. Enroll in programs offered through the Technological Leadership Institute (TLI).

As part of the College of Science and Engineering, TLI bridges the gap between business and engineering.  Our corporate and academic programs are developed with involvement from some of industry's top minds. It's world-class training that keeps Minnesota high-tech businesses at the global market forefront.

Established in 1987 with a Honeywell Foundation endowment, TLI assembles faculty and programs from the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering, the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

Earn a degree or get targeted skills via a TLI short course. TLI staff and faculty are committed to help you get the training you need to succeed with courses designed for working professionals. Choose from the master of science programs in management of technology or infrastructure systems (civil) engineering. Or participate in short courses or other TLI training activities. It's your decision. Decide to succeed.