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Things Get Worser at C4C–Updated
The University of Washington’s Center for Commercialization has just published a new list of startups for fiscal year 2014 (July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014). I just had to take a look, so last night into the wee hours … Continue reading
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4 Not 17 University of Washington Startups in FY13
[Update: There are only 4 FY13 companies on UW’s list for FY13–but UW’s list for FY14 adds 8 9 more, even while being wrong about 17 of the 18 companies it claims for FY14–crazy! 2nd update: The UW vice chancellor … Continue reading
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Tesla's Patent Move That Universities Must Also Make
Tesla Motors, the electric car manufacturer, has released all of its patents to its competitors. A search at the USPTO for patents and patent applications assigned to Tesla Motors returns 169 issued US patents and 231 published applications. No doubt … Continue reading
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Replication: The Technology Transfer Problem
Steve Fiori on the SCISP listserv called the list’s attention to a blog post by David Funder, a research psychologist at UC Riverside. Funder’s post discusses a recent NSF workshop that took up the issue of replication of research results. … Continue reading
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Feynman on Research Reporting
Richard Feynman, in “Cargo Cult Science,” talks of an “utter honesty” required in science (my bold): It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty–a kind of leaning over backwards. … Continue reading
Shocking, Isn't It?
That last post pulled a set of things together. Let’s break them out as shorter pieces for folks with less time to read. A Utah state audit found that the University of Utah had inflated its economic development figures. USTAR, … Continue reading
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Ouroboros Innovation Advocacy
SSTI just sent out a note about a new report by Louis G. Tornatzky and Elaine C. Redeout, “Innovation U 2.0 Reinventing University Roles in a Knowledge Economy.” After a brief read through it, I’m left puzzled. Perhaps this note … Continue reading
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The secret student "investment" in technology transfer
About a month ago, I wrote a couple of essays on the Brookings report “University Start-ups: Critical for Improving Technology Transfer.” The Brookings report thinks that university administrators starting and investing in companies is a really keen idea, especially if … Continue reading
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Is more and more research spending the answer?
Battelle is out with a new study forecasting “Global R&D Funding” for 2014. The report covers countries and various areas of research such as biotech and energy. The findings are rather bland–the US will spend $465 billion next year on … Continue reading
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Simple Bayh-Dole
Introduction The Bayh-Dole Act is a complex piece of work, with a tangle of requirements and implementing regulations, with plenty of opportunity for misunderstandings and exploitation. In other places, I have worked to show in detail how the Bayh-Dole Act … Continue reading
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