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Category Archives: Metrics
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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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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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
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Points of Engagement
In Culture and Prosperity, John Kay observes that “we work in organizations, earn as individuals, and consume as households.” A similar observation can be made of university research–faculty work in a university context, as principal investigators take on research with … Continue reading
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