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Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole, Part 4
We have looked at an article by Boettiger and Bennett reviewing the Bayh-Dole Act after 25 years. We have picked over the description of the law and pointed out how our authors mischaracterize the law to their own disadvantage. Bayh-Dole doesn’t … Continue reading
Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole, Part 3
Boettiger and Bennett look at Bayh-Dole after 25 years and discuss how things ought to change. To set up their discussion, they first characterize Bayh-Dole as having “shifted the incentive structure” for patents. Parts 1 and 2 of this series … Continue reading
Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole, Part 2
We are working through an article by Boettiger and Bennett that looks back on Bayh-Dole and wishes things were different in some ways. The actual thrust of the article, though, is about university patent practice. To get there, however, we … Continue reading
Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole, Part 1
Ten years ago Sara Boettiger and Alan Bennett, a couple of University of California licensing officers, published an article on Bayh-Dole in Nature Biotechnology, “Bayh-Dole: if we knew then what we know now.” Boettiger and Bennett paint a picture of … Continue reading
Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole: Summary
For the next few days, Research Enterprise will run “Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole,” a series of eight posts working through an article about Bayh-Dole from 2006 by Sara Boettiger and Alan Bennett. The authors argue for some … Continue reading
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After another parade
Back in 2010, Roop Singh and Sonali Tare published an article in the Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets, “India’s Emerging Technology Commercialization Policy: Lessons from the American Model.” It is not at all clear that the authors are … Continue reading
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University technology transfer as an import function
Here is Carlo Marco Belfanti, on “Guilds, Patents, and the Circulation of Technical Knowledge“: In 1554 the Republic of Lucca established a special office, the Offizio sopra le Nuove Arti, to undertake the task of “examining the ways of introducing … Continue reading
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After the parade
Sometimes I feel like my job is to come along after the parade and sweep up all the horse-manure left by AUTM folks. Crowds are gone, balloons all popped, marching bands safe back in their hotel rooms. University inventions locked … Continue reading
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Bayh-Dole, a law designed to reduce invention use rates
Here’s a table from the Harbridge House report, c. 1968. I’ve marked on it to call attention to some figures. First, when a contractor has experience and owns an invention, the commercial use rate is over 20%. Universities, however, as … Continue reading
Bench scientists should read Lysistrata
Sometimes there’s someone else who cleans up after the parade. Back in 2010 and 2013, Anthony Nicholls, President and CEO of OpenEye Scientific, published some articles about the problems of academic research, the failure of government to fund basic science, … Continue reading
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