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Category Archives: Policy
Explaining an Emblem of the Linear Model
Gene Quinn at IP Watchdog posted last October a nice essay (h/t to François Stofft at the Linkedin International Technology Transfer Professionals group) on the problems of accelerating technology transfer by federal fiat. The new programs that have been announced … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Limits of Causation Models in Technology Transfer
There is an article by Jonah Lehrer in the latest Wired magazine that is worth the read. It’s called “Trials and Errors” with the subtitle “Dead-end experiments, useless drugs, unnecessary surgery. Why Science is Failing Us.” Lehrer discusses the growing … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Policy, Social Science, Technology Transfer
Tagged causation, models, technology transfer
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Compulsory IP Taking and Public Universities
Personal ownership of inventions is a matter of federal common law and a personal right to a patent on that invention is established in the US Constitution. The Bill of Rights also provides that the government cannot take property without … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged compensation, compulsory, employment, taking
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Rev Proc 2007-47’s Nonsensical Attack on Bayh-Dole
[9/20/18–See this discussion of Rev Proc 2007-47 by the University Industry Demonstration Project–“Public Policy Regarding Industry-Sponsored Research at U.S. Universities.“] Many public universities use tax-free bonds to construct their research buildings, and when they do, they run afoul of the … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged 47-2007, Bayh-Dole, private use, qualified user, Tax Reform Act of 1986
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Innovation Fail: autocracy + bureaucracy
I have yet to see a reasoned argument supporting what many university technology transfer officers appear to favor: that the best innovation policy is autocracy + bureaucracy That’s what 70 of ’em argued in their amicus brief in Stanford v. … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Present Assignment, Technology Transfer
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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
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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
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Trying to make the present assignment problem really simple
I’ve been working through the shift to present assignments. There’s so much bad advice for universities out there. You’d think the attorneys writing their blog posts and newsletter columns could at least make an effort to get it right. The … Continue reading
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The UC Present Assignment Demand: Links
For UC faculty unsure of what to do with the UC administration “this is not a change in policy, just sign here to confirm you agree”, here is a set of links to my discussion of the matter, if it … Continue reading
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Vistas of Potential and Speculative University Inventions
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a cover story on reproducing the results of medical research. It’s behind a subscription pay wall on-line. (fwiw, I used some of my expiring frequent flyer miles to subscribe to keep my subscription active). “This … Continue reading