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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
University Patent Policy for Effective Technology Transfer, 1: Outline
Universities have never had patent policies centered on technology transfer. Not back when, not now. It should come as no surprise that universities don’t track technology transfer and don’t report their outcomes. What would a university technology transfer IP policy … Continue reading
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Tagged project, technology transfer
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On Technology Transfer Metrics, 5: Metrics relative to mission
Who it is that most wants technology change. Or, more particularly, who is it that we ought to want to make technology change? My bet is that the top of that list is not occupied by patent bureaucrats. It’s not, … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics, Technology Transfer
Tagged bureaucrats, metrics, technology change, technology transfer
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On Technology Transfer Metrics, 4: Technology transfer and technology change
We have been talking university technology transfer metrics. First, that there aren’t any metrics. No one bothers to collect them or report them. Instead we get proxies of activity–number of patents, number of licenses. Once one has patents, then one … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics, Technology Transfer
Tagged bureaucrats, metrics, technology change, technology transfer
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On Technology Transfer Metrics, 3: Money
Universities don’t track their transfers, the federal government does not track university transfers, and professional organizations and nonprofits do not track university transfers. Law firms don’t track university transfers. Venture capital firms don’t track university transfers. Pretty much anyone who … Continue reading
On Technology Transfer Metrics, 2: Management
There are uses for metrics in business. One is to make management decisions. There’s a repeated bit of nonsense–you can’t manage what you don’t measure. There’s a veneer in truth in that, along the lines of “if you measure it, … Continue reading
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Tagged license, management, metrics
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On Technology Transfer Metrics, 1: Issues
Let’s follow up on the fact that there’s no publicly available–free–data source to track university to industry technology transfer. There’s no non-free data source to track such transfer, either. You would think there would be. To get at metrics, let’s … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics, Technology Transfer
Tagged AUTM, licensing, metrics, money, technology transfer
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Freely available data resources to track US university technology transfer
I answered a Quora question. Here it is. Are there any freely available data resources to track technology transfer activity between universities and commercial businesses in the US? Here’s my answer. No. And that’s quite amazing. Most universities publish an … Continue reading
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Tagged AUTM, fragment, invention, patent, technology transfer
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Mick Stadler writes a letter in 1976 on “effective transfer mechanisms”–2
We are working through Mick Stadler’s 1976 letter to Research Corporation’s Willard Marcy. Stadler outlines eight functions for a next generation “technology transfer mechanism.” The essentials of Stadler’s view are that the mechanism must distribute technology widely, must be distributed, … Continue reading
Mick Stadler writes a letter in 1976 on “effective transfer mechanisms”–1
On June 29, 1976 Mick Stadler wrote a letter to Willard Marcy, the Vice President of Research Corporation’s Patent Program. Stadler, at the time was assistant director of the Case Western Reserve technology transfer program. He would go on to … Continue reading
Posted in History, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged industry, Stadler, technology transfer
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Harbridge House on university exclusive licensing, 2
There’s one more thing raised by the Harbridge House report–the metrics on those patent development firms. Patent applications are filed on approximately 10 to 15 percent of the disclosures submitted and, if present circumstances continue, only one-quarter of these patents … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, History, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged exclusive licensing, Harbridge House, invention, patent
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