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A sense of proportion–3
Prior to federal funding becoming the dominant source of university research funding, most universities operated their invention policies with a review committee that made recommendations to the university president with regard to particular inventions. The volume of invention reporting was … Continue reading
Posted in History, Policy, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer
Tagged exclusive license, invention, Research Corporation, technnology transfer
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A sense of proportion–2
University administrators have engaged in a thirty-year effort of research invention management that creates patent gridlock for what amounts to a tiny bit of the overall inventive activity in the country. That’s the black border area on this nice blue … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged block fest, invention, IPA, patent, Research Corporation, WARF
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 6
The first installment of this article is here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 WARF’s Design In 1999, Edmund Cronon and John Jenkins included a chapter on the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in their history of the University of … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged Bayh-Dole, captive venture, Cottrell, Cronon, invisible hand, Jenkins, Research Corporation, WARF
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Banging Our Hearts Against the Wall
Now that an arguably effective national infrastructure for dealing with inventions made by university faculty has been systematically dismantled over three decades in favor of institutionally self-serving patent administration, it is difficult to see a road back to pre-Bayh-Dole management. … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, History, Policy
Tagged Bayh-Dole, new way forward, policy wall., Research Corporation, technology transfer
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Bayh-Dole, the bureaucratic solution to massive federal funding of faculty research
Prior to 1912, university faculty generally did not seek patents. Cottrell at the University of California created Research Corporation to act as an external agent to present his and other faculty members’ inventions to industry. The Board of Research Corporation … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, Cottrell, MEST, NSF, Research Corporation, research foundations, Vannevar Bush
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