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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
Value Subtracted Marketing
I’m reading The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steven Blank. Consider this: “The difference between winners and losers is simple. Products developed with senior management out in front of customers early and often – win. Products handed off to … Continue reading
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Slop Dollars and the Bayh-Dole Character Test
A new bill to rewrite parts of Bayh-Dole is under review. Here is a write up about it. The idea is that a panel would be set up to explore some portion of royalties on government funded inventions would go … Continue reading
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Make-Use Commons in TBED, 2
In the previous post, I discussed the problem of accumulating a patent portfolio as a way to generate licensing income. A portfolio approach can be financially successful, but in a patent world, it needs only one or two hits a … Continue reading
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Make-Use Commons in TBED, 1
At the Pacific Northwest Economic Region conference in Portland a couple of weeks ago, I introduced the idea of a Make-Use Commons as a means of tying together research patent management and regional economic development. Let’s work through this idea. … Continue reading
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New earth
The Supreme Court ruling in Stanford v Roche makes it clear that the Bayh-Dole Act does not vest title in inventions with universities, does not mandate that universities take title, does not constrain inventors to assign only to their university … Continue reading
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Hairdressers on Everest
Over at TT2.0, Melba Kurman asks if university technology transfer is under-resourced or under-achieving. Melba raises very good points about the debate, including the efforts of the Department of Commerce to solicit input about technology transfer, which then just sits, … Continue reading
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Learning to See
While Bayh-Dole and Stanford v. Roche have taken up a lot of space on these pages recently, they are not the only things going around here by any means. One area of our work has been to gain a better … Continue reading
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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
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Go West for Innovation!
Here is the biggest outcome of Stanford v Roche: Bayh-Dole does not require universities to take ownership of inventions made with federal funds, does not mandate that universities do so, does not restrain the rights of inventors so they can … Continue reading
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Corrections Appended
Here is a university article from April, before the Supreme Court decision. I was hoping that the correction appended would have to do with errors having to do with Bayh-Dole, but no, it was not to be. Thus, I’ve supplied … Continue reading
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