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Category Archives: Innovation
Vannevar Bush and the Unexpected Model of Innovation
In Science and Technology Policy in the United States: Open Systems in Action, Sylvia Kraemer spends a section of a chapter discussing Vannevar Bush and Science the Endless Frontier. Kraemer agrees that Science the Endless Frontier is an important document in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged AUTM, Benoit Godin, innovation, linear model, Sylvia Kraemer, tea, Vannevar Bush
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Dual selectivity or dual monopoly? What’ll it be?
Archie Palmer’s surveys of university patent policies make clear that most universities for a long time did not have a patent policy, and when they did write a policy, often it recorded ad hoc practices–for the vast majority of universities, … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, History, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Dealing with Norming Myths
There’s a new study out at Future Internet that looks at how Wikipedia’s norms have developed over the years. In “The Evolution of Wikipedia’s Norm Network,” Bradi Heaberlin and Simon DeDeo examine Wikipedia’s form of governance and find it to … Continue reading
Four Approaches to University Patent Policies
Policy For the last couple of weeks I have been considering the nature of university patent policies. I have looked at a number of university patent policies and written a number of drafts. Things get complicated quickly, but there appears … Continue reading
Posted in Agreements, Innovation, Policy
Tagged Bayh-Dole, liberty, patent policy, threat
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Do what you have promised to do: Further consequences of (f)(2)
[Updated with a discussion of NIST’s May 2018 rule change] The (f)(2) requirement in the standard patent rights clause authorized by the Bayh-Dole Act is a requirement for the host university to delegate, to flow down, to subcontract a portion … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Innovation, Policy
Tagged (f)(2), Bayh-Dole, disclosure, totalitarian, written agreement
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Bayh-Dole, the bureaucratic solution to massive federal funding of faculty research
Prior to 1912, university faculty generally did not seek patents. Cottrell at the University of California created Research Corporation to act as an external agent to present his and other faculty members’ inventions to industry. The Board of Research Corporation … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, Cottrell, MEST, NSF, Research Corporation, research foundations, Vannevar Bush
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The VPR Letters, No. 1
Dear Vice Provost for Research, An insightful vice provost for research once told me that the director of technology transfer had the second most difficult job in the university, after the dean of medicine. Having served as a director of a campus … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer
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UW's President Continues UW's Rank Deception
On September 30, University of Washington interim president Ana Mari Cauce sent out an email to alumni, including me, on the topic of “kicking off a new year.” The aim of the email was a pitch for donations, of course. … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Innovation, Metrics
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The Road to Redemption
Here’s a story in today’s Seattle Times about AnswerDash, a company formed by students and faculty at the University of Washington’s Information School (my emphasis): The company, founded in 2012, has raised more than $5 million, including a $2.9 million … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Metrics, Policy, Startups
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Come in from the cold
In The Economist for August 8, there’s an article on the problem of patents. The article questions the utility of patents and points to a number of situations in which patents appear to block innovation or have nothing to do … Continue reading