Category Archives: History

Oh, No, Another Friend Like This!

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

I’m going to work through the May 2010 amicus brief filed by AUTM WARF and others in Stanford v. Roche. The aim of the brief is to protect Bayh-Dole relative to a finding by an appeals court that a university … Continue reading →

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Social Media in Tech Transfer

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

I don’t quite know how to write this. Piscopo version at the end. The key thing about social media is that it is social. That’s more than advertising and self-promotion, though both are of course in their own way part … Continue reading →

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Bozonets and Innovation Practice

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Gerald Barnett

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

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Gerald Barnett

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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Research Foundation or TEI?

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Gerald Barnett

So, why an institute rather than a good old research foundation? University affiliated research foundations have been around for nearly 100 years–many date from the 1920s and 30s. These were set up originally to manage inventions for faculty (before anyone … Continue reading →

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Start

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Gerald Barnett

Welcome. I have been working in the area of research innovation management since 1991, mostly with universities on the US west coast. I am taking the next two years to focus on developing programs and concepts that connect university research … Continue reading →

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