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Espresso Granola
Okay. I have been making granola for dunno over five years. Here’s my once uber-non-public recipe. Combine the Goop Mess and Espresso with the Dry Mix. Bake, stir, and cool. Easy. Expectable IP comment to follow.
Posted in Fun, Innovation
Tagged decalf, granola, innovation, secret
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Reflections on Shill Reflections on Bayh-Dole, 7: Grubbers, innovation, and march-in
Reflections on Bayh-Dole by “industry leaders”–who are, apparently, mostly shills out shilling for (and to) the pharmaceutical industry. Good shilling earns shillings, so it is a viable career choice. We use these shills reflecting on Bayh-Dole to also reflect on … Continue reading
NIST’s “substantially fueled” premise for unleashing innovation
Here is a claim from the opening of a recent NIST report–1234–on “Unleashing American Innovation,” a “draft green paper”: The U.S. innovation system is substantially fueled by the discoveries and inventions arising from federally funded R&D at the Nation’s universities, … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Metrics, Policy
Tagged innovation, NIST, patents, research
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UW Continues to Ride Fake Startup Metrics
From 2008 to 2015, the University of Washington faked its startup metrics and won itself awards and reputation for its entrepreneurial and innovative chops. (See articles discussing UW fakery here and here and here.) Senior UW administrators concocted a story … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Metrics
Tagged fake metrics, falsus, fools, innovation, UW
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Vannevar Bush and the Unexpected Model of Innovation
In Science and Technology Policy in the United States: Open Systems in Action, Sylvia Kraemer spends a section of a chapter discussing Vannevar Bush and Science the Endless Frontier. Kraemer agrees that Science the Endless Frontier is an important document in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged AUTM, Benoit Godin, innovation, linear model, Sylvia Kraemer, tea, Vannevar Bush
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On the warfarin path
We frame our expectations and our insights by the stories we tell. This is true as well of the stories of innovation. How does something new come into the world and reshape things? We have two primary narratives–bane and boon–one, … Continue reading
Posted in IP, Social Science, Technology Transfer
Tagged innovation, Link, narrative, WARF, warfarin
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Two Yesses
The idea of innovation is complicated. Benoît Godin has shown in a series of articles that innovation until the last hundred years or so has been a derogatory term. No one wanted to be called an innovator. Then in science, … Continue reading
Posted in Social Science, Technology Transfer
Tagged delight, Godin, innovation, technology transfer, yes
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The Value of TLOs
The TLO (technology licensing office) is a bug in the grass of innovation. There’s so much more involved than holding patents on research inventions for money. However, bugs have their place in innovation, provided they are the right kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Technology Transfer
Tagged AUTM, innovation, intermediaries, TLO
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