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Freedman's Science & Technology Strategy Conundrums
Benoît Godin suggested that I take a look at Ron Freedman’s “10 S&T Strategy Conundrums.” I think it’s a document that a lot of folks should read. While Freedman is focused on the situation in Canada, there’s a lot for … Continue reading
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Worthless Patents
In my internet travels, I came across a useful article by Kimberly A. Moore titled “Worthless Patents.” At the time she wrote the article, she was a law professor at George Mason. Presently she is a judge with the Court … Continue reading
The Rhetoric of Technology Transfer and Student Debt
From Thomas Frank’s article in The Baffler (h/t Chris) on college tuition prices and administrative excess: The coming of academic capitalism has been anticipated and praised for years; today it is here. Colleges and universities clamor greedily these days for … Continue reading
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I want my, I want my IPA–Part IV
Previous parts of this essay (I, II, and III) have taken up the structural shift of Bayh-Dole from the Institutional Patent Agreement, removing assignment to the university but also relaxing licensing oversight to the point of non-consequence. What is left … Continue reading
Problems with COGR’s 1999 "Guide" to Bayh-Dole
In 1999, the Council on Governmental Relations, a non-profit organization that fronts for over 100 research universities on lobbying and advocacy issues, produced an influential summary of the Bayh-Dole Act, “The Bayh-Dole Act: A Guide to the Law and Implementing … Continue reading
The Entrepreunial Research University
Three narratives have come together to support the transformation of American university innovation policy from one of diversity and institutional support to one of monopoly institutional control of research inventions, heralded as the best thing for the country. All the … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged Atkinson, Bayh-Dole, entrepreneurial university, Godin, linear model, Science the Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush
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Equity Policies and Ownership Policies, Part III
Part I is here. Part II is here. Part III follows below. The policies of the form of 1962–dealing in equities, diverse, open, advocating the use of external invention management agents, if a university had a policy at all–supported the … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Freedom, Metrics, Policy, Stanford v Roche, Technology Transfer
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Equity Policies and Ownership Policies, Part II
Part I is here. The shift from equity to ownership in university patent polices reflects a substantial change in the approach to innovation. An equity based policy does not require a claim of ownership. It is based on the circumstances … Continue reading
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University startups, exits, and candor
The most recent Pitchbook has some interesting information on private equity exits. If university administrators have been sold on the idea that there’s fast cash in startup company equity, there are also data to dampen administrative spirits. The Pitchbook identifies … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Metrics, Policy
Tagged exit, loyal opposition, Pitchbook, startup, University of Washington
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What the university doing research was built for
[update 9/2/2016. I’ve rebuilt the middle section of this article to do a better job with the numbers. I built a little model in Excel and have included snapshots from it in the text. Once the model is in better … Continue reading
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