Category Archives: Technology Transfer

Knights of the Burning Pestle and AUTM!

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

This shouldn’t take long, as we all have better things to do. I’ve been poking at AUTM for some time now. It’s not my favorite thing to do, but I don’t see any other discussion of what is going on. … Continue reading →

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Scary Flying Clowns

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

The university IP administrators are arguing that faculty should have no voice in the inventions they make in their research work. They want federal policy to make universities into corporate-style contract research operations, creating IP for the benefit of the … Continue reading →

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Oh, No, Another Friend Like This!

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

I’m going to work through the May 2010 amicus brief filed by AUTM WARF and others in Stanford v. Roche. The aim of the brief is to protect Bayh-Dole relative to a finding by an appeals court that a university … Continue reading →

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Creeping Bureauklepticism

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

Howard E. McCurdy has a fascinating comment on the life cycle of bureaus, with particular reference to NASA. The article is available in pdf if you have an institutional affiliation with an academic institution. McCurdy builds on work by Anthony … Continue reading →

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Homebrew Industrial Revolution

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

Looking at Kevin Carson’s latest effort. It’s pretty uneven (such as relying on John Noble for page after page to depict all modern innovation as essentially a spillover of military spending). But it does raise important issues with regard to … Continue reading →

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IP in 3D Printing

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

This article looks at IP in low cost 3D printing from the UK perspective. The upshot is, as long as you are not aiming to sell 3D printers and you aren’t trying to sell copyright or trademark-protected objects without permission, … Continue reading →

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Empathy and Innovation

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

Thought this piece by Dev Patnaik is an interesting development of the idea of empathy in design. How do we build a limbic system for innovation in a university world dominated by process-bound technology administration? One way is to allocate … Continue reading →

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AUTM Finds Itself North of the DMZ

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

If we look at AUTM as a membership organization, where the dues are largely paid on behalf of the members by their employers, and ask what positions it has taken recently, we find that overwhelming those positions are with policies … Continue reading →

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Gatekeeper Dysfunction and the Second Amendment

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

ThinkProgress reports that Don Abrams of OilSpillVolunteers.com has compiled a list of nearly 8000 volunteers, many with significant expertise in oil spills, hazmat, and the like. BP hasn’t contacted any of them. Of course there are many experts available and … Continue reading →

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Gulf Commons

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be now 100m gallons and is a decade or worse-class disaster. The question arises whether university research has anything to contribute to mitigate the adverse effects of the spill. One would … Continue reading →

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