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Vice presidents for research beg for Directive 10-289.
Here’s a bit from the APLU/AAU fakographic on university technology transfer: And here’s a bit from “‘Miracle machine of U.S. innovation is in danger,” a new op/ed by Kelvin Droegemeier and Daniel Reed. Droegemeier is the vice president for research at … Continue reading
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Tagged basic research, Directive 289, Iowa, Oklahoma
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UW startups for FY2013 four years later, 1
[Some 2022 updates below.] In 2014, Research Enterprise ran a series of articles on the fake startup metrics at the University of Washington: Only 1 University of Washington Startup for FY 2014 4 Not 17 University of Washington Startups in … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics, Sponsored Research, Startups
Tagged fake metrics, startups, University of Washington
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Getting at the truth about Bayh-Dole’s impact, Part 5
Now we get to the crunch of Catherine Kirby’s blog article–published at a Rice University web site for entrepreneurship–with the section “Did the Bill Work?” Since the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act, more than 5,000 new companies have formed from federally … Continue reading
Getting at the truth about Bayh-Dole’s impact, Part 1
Last December Catherine Kirby, a student at Rice University, posted “The True Impact of the Bayh-Dole Act” at the McNair Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Her article got called out in a tweet by Daniel Garisto as an instance of … Continue reading
Government Interest Patent Activity 1976 to 2016, Part 4
In a portfolio model, 1 invention in 200 becoming a commercial product is acceptable, if the 1 is a big hit. In an agent model, 1 in 200 is unacceptable and borders on malpractice or fraud unless inventors willingly turn … Continue reading
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Government Interest Patent Activity 1976 to 2016, Part 3
With this context, let’s return to our patent activity graphs. University and nonprofit patents with a government interest have grown from 10% of all patents citing a government interest to over 50%. This level of activity leveled off around 1998 … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, government interest, patent policy, subject invention
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Government Interest Patent Activity 1976 to 2016, Part 2
Let’s turn to Research Corporation now. For decades, Research Corporation was the dominant invention management broker for universities. Even where universities created research foundations to manage inventions, those foundations often contracted with Research Corporation to do the actual patent work. … Continue reading
Government Interest Patent Activity 1976 to 2016, Part 1
I ran some patent numbers over the past week using the USPTO web search interface. It’s not the easiest search environment to use, and I don’t expect the numbers to be precise. But I expect the numbers are accurate enough to … Continue reading
Bayh-Dole’s Mandate to Break-up Patent Monopolies on Subject Inventions
In the past few months, I have spent a good deal of time on the Bayh-Dole Act. One of the great challenges of dealing with Bayh-Dole is to get past what university patent brokers say the law “is” and get … Continue reading
Evidence-based federal research patent policy
The Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking is holding a public hearing in Chicago in January for “any interested stakeholders” to provide input. Given that the commission’s statutory mandate is more toward database access and security, I’m not sure that the lack … Continue reading