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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
Some Lessons Learned
Here are some things I’ve learned over the years working in university technology transfer: University technology transfer is fundamentally instruction–“a classroom for companies.” Technology transfer is a matter of instruction, opportunity, and goodwill. It is not a system that can … Continue reading
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Cockroach Living in Technology Transfer
I didn’t intend to end up in university technology transfer, but I fell down a rabbit hole and here I still am. I have seen university technology transfer from both sides now. For 12 years, I worked for the University … Continue reading
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From provider to predator: University of Texas patent policy, Part 4
In 2005, BethLynn Maxwell, a patent attorney then in the Intellectual Property Section of the Office of General Counsel for the University of Texas System, published a brief article on the Bayh-Dole Act, “Twenty-Five Years After Bayh-Dole” in the Office of … Continue reading
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Effects, uncontested, are a policy's objectives
After 35 years, no reliable data on federally supported technology transfer Here is Sylvia Kraemer, writing in Science and Technology Policy in the United States (2006), on a fundamental problem in federal research policy identified by a Department of Commerce … Continue reading
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Science at the Frontier and the Effect of the Linear Model
In Science the Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush proposed federal funding to universities to expand the frontiers of science. Folks these days focus on the science part of Bush’s proposal and his advocacy for funding research at universities. They skip over the idea … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Printing, History, Innovation, Policy, Social Science, Technology Transfer
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Vannevar Bush and the Unexpected Model of Innovation
In Science and Technology Policy in the United States: Open Systems in Action, Sylvia Kraemer spends a section of a chapter discussing Vannevar Bush and Science the Endless Frontier. Kraemer agrees that Science the Endless Frontier is an important document in … Continue reading
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Tagged AUTM, Benoit Godin, innovation, linear model, Sylvia Kraemer, tea, Vannevar Bush
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The Purpose of the Patent System for University Research
There is a general argument that the patent is a pretty useful cultural tool to stimulate and reward technological innovation. The owner of a patent has the right to exclude others from practicing (making, having made, using, selling, offering for … Continue reading
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Dual selectivity or dual monopoly? What’ll it be?
Archie Palmer’s surveys of university patent policies make clear that most universities for a long time did not have a patent policy, and when they did write a policy, often it recorded ad hoc practices–for the vast majority of universities, … Continue reading
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The Casino Factor
We have been working through how a university might come to acquire patent rights from its faculty. I’ve discussed the problems in the dual monopoly system–comprehensive, compulsory assignment of a broad set of things labeled “inventions” combined with a strong … Continue reading
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Principalities of Patenting
I am working through the ways in which a university comes to acquire patent rights from faculty inventors. This is turning into a series of articles. This stuff isn’t easy–but then, as far as I can tell, it’s not easy … Continue reading
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