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Author Archives: Gerald Barnett
Replication: The Technology Transfer Problem
Steve Fiori on the SCISP listserv called the list’s attention to a blog post by David Funder, a research psychologist at UC Riverside. Funder’s post discusses a recent NSF workshop that took up the issue of replication of research results. … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Science, Metrics, Technology Transfer
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Feynman on Research Reporting
Richard Feynman, in “Cargo Cult Science,” talks of an “utter honesty” required in science (my bold): It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty–a kind of leaning over backwards. … Continue reading
Shocking, Isn't It?
That last post pulled a set of things together. Let’s break them out as shorter pieces for folks with less time to read. A Utah state audit found that the University of Utah had inflated its economic development figures. USTAR, … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Metrics, Technology Transfer
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The Paradise of University Rhetoric About Science and Innovation
Ian Sample, writing for The Guardian’s ShortcutsBlog, describes how MIT grad students in 2005 created a “fake science report” generator that produced bogus scientific articles for presentation at conferences. Now anyone can download the generator: But this is the hoax … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Science, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged bad science, fake science, outcomes, paddy west, uncaring money
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More Bayh-Dole Nonsense
In the “Innovation U 2.0” report, we find the now expectable misrepresentation of the Bayh-Dole Act: Following the passage of the Bayh-Dole legislation in 1980 every US university had the responsibility–and new opportunities–to work with faculty innovators in assessing the … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Ouroboros Innovation Advocacy
SSTI just sent out a note about a new report by Louis G. Tornatzky and Elaine C. Redeout, “Innovation U 2.0 Reinventing University Roles in a Knowledge Economy.” After a brief read through it, I’m left puzzled. Perhaps this note … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
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What do the hawks say?
What do the hawks say? You know, parody is a permissible fair use.
Be Advocates for the Doers
Universities prior to Bayh-Dole generally pushed invention management to external agents. These agents took on the expense, the complexity, the competitive issues, and the liability. These agents allowed universities to avoid direct conflicts of interest between managing the research environment … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, History, Policy, Technology Transfer
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The secret student "investment" in technology transfer
About a month ago, I wrote a couple of essays on the Brookings report “University Start-ups: Critical for Improving Technology Transfer.” The Brookings report thinks that university administrators starting and investing in companies is a really keen idea, especially if … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Another Thing That Can Go Wrong With HR 3309
Are you tracking the anti-troll legislation making its way through Congress? Chris Gallagher has been doing that, and some of you are no doubt on his mailing list with updates. If you are an administrator at a university, and you … Continue reading
Posted in Agreements, Litigation, Policy
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