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Author Archives: Gerald Barnett
Stats and the Darndest Things
AUTM stats were developed to make visible the practice load on a technology transfer office. As Benoit Godin has shown with the formation of the linear model (misconstruing coarse unrelated categories of basic, applied, and development research into a chronological … Continue reading
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Innovation or Invention?
Most universities do not consider a general approach to innovation, or as I would put it, deployment of research-involved new capability (DRINC). The patent-and-license piece is just that, a piece. It’s good to focus on how that particular action comes … Continue reading
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Bozonets and Innovation Practice
Maybe you already see where consideration of bozonets leads for university research asset management. Let’s take the draft bozonet framework and consider what may have happened with Bayh-Dole and university technology transfer. Pre-BD, only a few universities operated “technology transfer” … Continue reading
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Bozonet: A draft
Why is innovation in innovation management so difficult? One explanation that has been developing in my mind involves what I call the “bozonet.” A bozonet is a largely inexpert social network incapable of distinguishing expertise from non-expertise. A bozonet is … Continue reading
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Take Two Metrics and Call Me…
To evaluate a university’s commitment to supporting national innovation goals, here are two metrics that are not generally reported, but ought to be. 1) what is the university’s budget for innovation? In total dollars, and as a % of its … Continue reading
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Giving Lip
With regard to giving lip to university technology transfer work, perhaps we really do live in a “who cares?” administrative environment. You know, as in it’s all petty idealism to actually think that public statements should reflect what is happening … Continue reading
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Follow the Money Tensions
Bayh-Dole sets up a three key tensions in how licensing money is allocated. costs vs research (invest or slush?) inventors vs administration (how much is shared?) inventors vs other costs (when is it shared?) Universities mobilize policy to deal with … Continue reading
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Linear Model
There is a lot of talk about the limitations of the “linear model” of innovation. Here’s a good paper on the topic by Benoit Godin. “It is rather a theoretical construction of industrialists, consultants and business schools, seconded by economists.” … Continue reading
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Technology Lists
A lot of effort appears to be going into creating “technology available for licensing” lists as commercial services. This is pitched as a way to “market” university “technologies”. The competition is to create the list with the best features. The … Continue reading
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Co-marketing IP
Why do so few universities coordinate their patent portfolios? And why is it such news when they do? The demands of “marketing IP” in the patent broker model are such that it’s a huge drain of energy and apparent loss … Continue reading
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