Search the RE article base
Contact Information
Twitter
My TweetsUseful Web Sites
Category Archives: Metrics
The University as Bayh-Dole Privateer
Why would a nation-state seek to claim ownership of inventions made by its citizens? That is, what uses would a nation-state put its patent system to, beyond those that one might expect of an individual inventor, entrepreneur, investor, company, university, … Continue reading
Five Questions That Shape Federal Research Invention Ownership Policy
In the industry research laboratories of the early 20th century, the question was, which comes first, basic research leading to new scientific knowledge, followed by development efforts to create commercial products? or development efforts to create commercial products, which, when … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, commercialization, Eisenhower, O'Connor, Truman, Valdivia
Comments Off on Five Questions That Shape Federal Research Invention Ownership Policy
Dealing with TLO Food Bowl Aggression
I came across a paper in PLoS that discusses Global Access Licensing. The point of the paper is to lay out GAL Framework principles and appeal to university licensing offices to implement them. The authors point out that Bayh-Dole allows … Continue reading
The Gulag of Inventions
A Chronicle of Higher Education story has this headline: “Ambitious AAUP Effort to Guide Relations Between Academics and Industry Meets Resistance.” The “resistance” is from two officials speaking for AUTM and AAU. These are the same folks who led the … Continue reading
WYSIATI
In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman develops the idea of “what you see is all there is.” He makes the case that we use two rather different mental approaches, which he calls System 1 and System 2. System 1 … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics, Social Science, Technology Transfer
Tagged Kahneman, pattern, system
Comments Off on WYSIATI
Stevenson-Wydler Technology Transfer Reporting
I have written before about technology transfer standards (here and here, for instance), and how the AUTM licensing survey in particular fails to provide useful management information, and in some ways is quite misleading with regard to what is going … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
Comments Off on Stevenson-Wydler Technology Transfer Reporting
The Effect of University Monopoly Licensing in 3d Printing
Inkjet powder 3d printers provide a useful case study for the effects of university exclusive patent licensing. In the early 90s, MIT researchers developed inkjet 3d printers. They built off much of the technology platform used for selective laser sintering … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Printing, History, Innovation, Metrics, Technology Transfer
Tagged 3d printing, powder, Z-Corp
Comments Off on The Effect of University Monopoly Licensing in 3d Printing
Free Agency
It has been a year and half since Arundeep Pradhan published his “defense” of the AUTM status quo in Business Week. If one looks at the comments to that article, one finds a string of pearls of insiders commending the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
1 Comment
Rear View Research
I came across an interesting blog post by Jeff Henning. He provides an account of a talk at the University of Georgia by Stan Sthanuathan, VP of marketing strategy for Coca-Cola. Sthanuathan points out that a lot of industry research … Continue reading
Posted in History, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged AUTM, bewilderment, bozonet, consensus, exploration, Ganter, rear view, research
Comments Off on Rear View Research
What should a university focus on?
Benoît Godin on the statistics used to describe science, technology, and innovation (STI): – A focus on (research) activities rather than use and impacts. – An economic-oriented representation rather than social/cultural. – An interest in technology rather than science. – … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics, Social Science, Technology Transfer
Comments Off on What should a university focus on?