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Funnel vision and university default exclusive licensing

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Gerald Barnett

Much of the current, dominant narrative about patents at universities depends on looking isolating single inventions at a single institution with a single profile for use. “Inventions,” so this narrative go, will not be used or developed unless for each … Continue reading →

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Competing Primitive Narratives of Technology Transfer

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

I have noticed recently how merely having a reasonable account for something doesn’t mean that one has got the one and only reasonable account. Todorov, that critical theorist that folks in tech transfer have never heard of, says that there’s … Continue reading →

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On the warfarin path

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

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 →

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