Category Archives: Technology Transfer

How we got here in twelve chapters, 4

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Gerald Barnett

[I really do have the outline for the other 8 chapters! I just need to get back to pulling the explanatory text together] 4. Bayh-Dole the Killer The Bayh-Dole Act is passed in 1980 on the premise that doing so … Continue reading →

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How we got here in twelve chapters, 3

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

3. Chasing federally supported inventions Federal agencies develop a variety of approaches to inventions made in contracted work. University research foundations make a pitch for management of federally supported inventions, but are resisted by Public Health Service policies. As a … Continue reading →

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How we got here in twelve chapters, 2

Posted on December 26, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

2. The equities University faculty develop an approach to patents—mostly, keep them out of the university, use Research Corporation or a local research foundation. Agents provide services, take on the costs and risks, and share upsides with inventors and institutions. … Continue reading →

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How we got here in twelve chapters, 1

Posted on December 26, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

A few days ago I sat down to work on a curriculum for innovation and found myself distracted by the outline of a book-length treatment of the development of university “technology transfer.” I emerged a few hours later with a … Continue reading →

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University claims on non-supported inventive work

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

In a note on the Guide to Bayh-Dole, a reader asks: One point I have been particularly concerned with is the position taken by virtually all of the universities that if a university employee is hired as a consultant to … Continue reading →

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Feeding the 6,000

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

[Updated with new figures for the figure-challenged] In his thoughtful interview with University of Washington president Michael Young, Benjamin Romano asked about what will happen to C4C now that the Hall patents have expired, something everyone has known was going … Continue reading →

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Teaching Innovators to Innovate

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

Taleb in Antifragile, having commented on the invention of rollers on suitcases: The simpler and more obvious the discovery, the less equipped we are to figure it out by complicated methods. The key is that the significant can only be … Continue reading →

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Xconomy Looks at UW's Commercialization Record

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

Following on a piece in July by Kaylee Galloway for Catalyst that raised questions about UW’s commercialization program, Benjamin Romano of Xconomy has written an article that takes a look. Romano reports various perspectives, and lets readers decide what to make of … Continue reading →

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Four approaches to university IP management

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

It may be useful to map out four approaches to university IP management: Personal Entrepreneurial Institutional Open The discussion below does not advocate for one approach over the others, though compulsory institutional IP management seems not to have worked all … Continue reading →

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All Together Now

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

Here are the seven fitts of the university president’s speech, in order. A very exciting day for the university Who hoards technology in the Ivory Tower? Technemort, the name never to be spoken Who ya gonna call? Students, creating the … Continue reading →

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