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Author Archives: Gerald Barnett
A Little Lecture on Bayh-Dole
If you look at the list of purposes of the Bayh-Dole Act at 35 USC 200, you will find these elements: Use the patent system to promote the utilization of federally supported inventions encourage maximum participation of small business firms … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics, Technology Transfer
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Invention and Expertise
University IP policy tends to implement a “great man of invention” assumption. This is easy to do, not necessarily intentional, and unforgivable for a research organization of any sophistication. The “great man of invention” model proposes that a dominant individual … Continue reading
Posted in Technology Transfer
Tagged expertise, great man, invention, isolation
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Software and Biotech Licensing
University technology transfer is dominated by the what can be called “biotech licensing” expectations. University administrators and licensing professionals tend to believe that “biotech” is where the money is, both now and historically, and that the primary means of getting … Continue reading
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Posting Management
I have spent the last couple of months exploring other forms of discussion, including Linked-In discussion groups, Google groups, Twitter, Kyte, Wikis, Facebook, Plaxo, Spoke, conventional listserv discussions, and plain old email. My sense is that Linked-In discussions for the … Continue reading
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Open Innovation and University Tech Transfer
Open innovation lies at the root of university technology transfer. The fundamental expectation in moving technology from basic research to industry requires that companies accept incoming technology. As soon as one is up against the “not invented here” syndrome, one … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Technology Transfer
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Economic Development and TTX
Paul Wellings, Vice Chancellor at Lancaster University, apparently has come out with the idea that government policy should make clear that “the primary purpose of research commercialization is to benefit the economy as a whole, rather than create an income … Continue reading
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Layers Confusion
Folks confuse research and administrative layers in making research arrangements. Research is about the conduct of inquiry. It carries certain conventions. Folks don’t generally sign contracts to work together, publish together–it’s a complex household, where there are commitments and shared … Continue reading
Posted in Sponsored Research, Uncategorized
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Confidentiality Agreements
There’s a topic header for this over at the University & Industry Innovation Forum. I’ve put a summary there. Here, I’ll post a fuller discussion. As with other areas of discussion on industry-university arrangements, confidentiality triggers cascades of reasoning. This … Continue reading
Posted in Sponsored Research
Tagged confidentiality agreements, contracts, research
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Other RTEI feeds
I am experimenting with other forms of interaction to engage folks in research enterprise topics. There’s a Twitter feed, not sure how valuable it may be, that tracks a bit of what I’m doing each day. Right now the feed … Continue reading
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RTEI IM
[RTEI IM is now a Twitter feed. Follow @umbut] An experiment. If you are working in a research environment that is facing a challenge, RTEI is available to offer general assistance. One way to get in touch is to use … Continue reading