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Bayh-Dole has dropped commercialization rates from 25% to 0.5%: what more can we expect?
University licensing programs appear to have about a 0.5% commercialization rate. That is, of all the assets reported to them which they claim, only 1 in 200 (or less) actually results in a commercial product (without regard to the “success” … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Commons, History, Metrics, Policy
Tagged Bayh-Dole, commercialization, Harbridge House, licensing, Picasso
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The $100M Rain Dance
A basic premise of university technology transfer is that research conducted at a university produces discoveries and inventions that otherwise would not be made, patents are issued on these discoveries and inventions, and the patent position induces investors and companies to … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Metrics, Technology Transfer
Tagged AUTM, bustle, C4C, commercialization, Lerner, regulatory capture, startup, University of Utah, University of Washington, USTAR
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Five Questions That Shape Federal Research Invention Ownership Policy
In the industry research laboratories of the early 20th century, the question was, which comes first, basic research leading to new scientific knowledge, followed by development efforts to create commercial products? or development efforts to create commercial products, which, when … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, commercialization, Eisenhower, O'Connor, Truman, Valdivia
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Francis Bacon, Vannevar Bush, and Technology Transfer
Peter Harrison and Benoît Godin trace the history and transformation of two of the critical concepts that underlie the present formula for university research: curiosity and innovation. Remarkably, both concepts have much of their early existence as negative things, to be … Continue reading
Posted in History, Social Science, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged caritas, commercialization, Francis Bacon, research, technology transfer, Vannevar Bush
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Limitation and Focus
It is easy to confuse focus and limitation. Focus selects valuable things from diversity, mobilizes resources, and aims to achieve a goal. Limitation cuts off consideration of opportunity from diversity and sets up rules to make things simple (or at … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics, Technology Transfer
Tagged Carolina Express, commercialization, focus, limitation, linear model
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Hmpf Issue Vol. 1
[Revised 9/11/2019 to clean up the option theory]. I have been looking at this paper from 2002: “Academia, Industry, and the Bayh-Dole Act: An Implied Duty to Commercialize.” I’ve seen it before and always shied away from commenting, but with … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole
Tagged Bayh-Dole, commercialization, option, policy
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