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Here is another article showing why the US is rejecting foreign assistance. And here’s a piece discussing how adding a criminal investigation will make it harder to try anything at all! A federal panel could gatekeep to say: here is … Continue reading →

The House Committee on Science & Technology subcommittee on Research and Science Education held a hearing this morning. The charge document is here.

Best Linkedin discussion of tech transfer these days is at the SpinOut group.

Is a portfolio making $10m/year and closing 50 licenses a year high performing? Is it still high performing if it is making $9.8m from one license, and $200K total from four more, and about one third of the patenting costs … Continue reading →

It has been a wild two weeks since I raised some points with regard to university patent practice under the Bayh-Dole Act. There is much to develop, but I can’t do it all in a single post. So it will … Continue reading →

I have spent the last couple of months exploring other forms of discussion, including Linked-In discussion groups, Google groups, Twitter, Kyte, Wikis, Facebook, Plaxo, Spoke, conventional listserv discussions, and plain old email. My sense is that Linked-In discussions for the … Continue reading →

Paul Wellings, Vice Chancellor at Lancaster University, apparently has come out with the idea that government policy should make clear that “the primary purpose of research commercialization is to benefit the economy as a whole, rather than create an income … Continue reading →