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Students, creating the value-added for investors
University of Washington president Michael Young gave a ten-minute talk in February 2012 at the opening of a business incubator on the UW campus. The talk is fascinating as a rationalization for the $100M effort to flip faculty and student startups … Continue reading
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Who ya gonna call?
University of Washington president Michael Young gave a ten-minute talk in February 2012 at the opening of a business incubator on the UW campus. The talk is fascinating as a rationalization for the $100M effort to flip faculty and student startups … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, IP, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Technemort, the name never to be spoken
University of Washington president Michael Young gave a ten-minute talk in February 2012 at the opening of a business incubator on the UW campus. The talk is fascinating as a rationalization for the $100M effort to flip faculty and student startups … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged C4C, Porsche Effect, Technemort, University of Washington, Young
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Who hoards technology in the Ivory Tower?
University of Washington president Michael Young gave a ten-minute talk in February 2012 at the opening of a business incubator on the UW campus. The talk is fascinating for the narrative it presents for UW to attempt to flip faculty and student … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Technology Transfer
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A very exciting day for the university
University of Washington president Michael Young gave a ten-minute talk in February 2012 at the opening of a business incubator on the UW campus. The talk is fascinating for the narrative it presents for UW to attempt to flip faculty and student … Continue reading
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Abbroachment
So I got this urge to do some snorkeling in the waters of Black’s Legal Dictionary. Just a little recreational reading. But I’d barely got into the waters–first page, in the A’s–when I hit up against this rock: Abbroachment. The act … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged abbroachment, cat, corner the market, factor
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Time for Research Policy–and Rhetoric–to Change
Over at Remaking the University, Christopher Newfield has a new essay about higher education policy. It is well worth the read. Newfield’s primary focus is the lack of policy movement in university administrations, despite chronic lack of funding–“permausterity,” as he calls … Continue reading
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Are AUTM Licensing Survey Results Overstating Activity?
I say yes–and I suspect the yes may be significant. In uncovering the problems with the University of Washington’s reporting of its startup activity for the past two years, another issue has surfaced. Let me explain. The University of Washington … Continue reading
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The Bully Pulpit
University of Washington president Michael Young gave a brief talk on technology transfer as he opened Fluke Hall as a startup incubator. In the talk, among other things Young challenged C4C, the UW licensing operation, to double the number of … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged bully pulpit, startups, UW, Young
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AUTM Startups and UW Reporting
In an article about the University of Washington’s Center for Commercialization by the Washington Business Alliance, Vice Provost Rhoads defends her startup figures: Rhoads responded, “Every single one of our startups can evidence itself to be the real deal and can meet the Association … Continue reading
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