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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
The loneliness of the tail gunner
A while back I wrote about Vannever Bush’s distinction between institutions based on confidence and ones based on fear and related this distinction to institutional patent policies. In a rather different context, Richard Lindzen of MIT takes up other problems … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer
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AAUP Supports Freedom to Innovate
The AAUP has just published a draft report that lays out the case for the importance of academic freedom with regard to patents. Just because faculty scholarship may include inventive work does not trigger a mandate for absolute university control … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer
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University Patent Policies, Past and Present, Part II
The first part of this essay showed some of the diversity of mid-century university patent policies. There were a number of approaches, from discouraging patenting to embracing it, from university direct control to the use of external agents. Almost all … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Present Assignment, Technology Transfer
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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
Posted in Metrics, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer
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UC Berkeley to make $160m per year on its patents
University patent policies are, these days, entirely about money, and specifically about the university making money by exploiting patent positions taken from faculty, students, staff, and others. But as money-making policies, they are generally incompetent, foolish, and wasteful. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Technology Transfer
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The Alt Narrative that Refreshes
In Ash: A Secret History, we get a slant narrative of a history that is almost our received view, but not quite. The narrative takes place on lands we recognize, with place names that are almost the ones we expect, … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Science, Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Newco and its discontents
Technology Transfer Tactics has an article out on UCLA’s Newco, but they don’t seem to have reviewed the Newco documents. I don’t have a subscription, so I won’t try to link to it. I expect the purpose of the story … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Technology Transfer
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TLO Summits, Cheap Talk, and Sacrifices
James Mawson has a thoughtful account of a recent meeting at UCSF to discuss how university technology transfer offices could better deal with current conditions for research, licensing, and money. A description of a meeting isn’t, of course, the meeting … Continue reading
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The Free Play of Free Intellects
The Bayh-Dole Act has been championed as a great turning point in the federal government’s management of inventions made by university faculty (for the most part) supported by federal money. The impression meant to be left with us is that … Continue reading
Posted in Agreements, Commons, Freedom, History, IP, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
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A Provisional History
I have been trying to figure out what happened to Research Corporation and why AUTM is so antagonistic to the idea of faculty inventors having a choice of who they work with to deploy their research findings. I call it … Continue reading
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