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Category Archives: Metrics
The Effect of University Monopoly Licensing in 3d Printing
Inkjet powder 3d printers provide a useful case study for the effects of university exclusive patent licensing. In the early 90s, MIT researchers developed inkjet 3d printers. They built off much of the technology platform used for selective laser sintering … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Printing, history, Innovation, Metrics, Technology Transfer
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Free Agency
It has been a year and half since Arundeep Pradhan published his “defense” of the AUTM status quo in Business Week. If one looks at the comments to that article, one finds a string of pearls of insiders commending the … Continue reading
Posted in history, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Rear View Research
I came across an interesting blog post by Jeff Henning. He provides an account of a talk at the University of Georgia by Stan Sthanuathan, VP of marketing strategy for Coca-Cola. Stan points out that a lot of industry research … Continue reading
Posted in history, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
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What should a university focus on?
Benoît Godin on the statistics used to describe science, technology, and innovation (STI): – A focus on (research) activities rather than use and impacts. – An economic-oriented representation rather than social/cultural. – An interest in technology rather than science. – … Continue reading
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University “Commercialization” and “Commercialization Programs”
I argue that while new products on the market is a primary measure of commercialization, the critical metric for a university commercialization program is the number of unlicensed inventions that the university has claimed. Every unlicensed invention acts to suppress … Continue reading
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Complex IP Management: Real and Imaginary
I want to look at a transition point in the framing of IP management. This discussion is about how management has structure. I argue that IP management is complex, and just like complex numbers, it has a real component, in … Continue reading
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You can’t manage what you are clueless in measuring
From time to time in technology transfer I hear the quip “you can’t manage what you can’t/don’t measure.” The general drift of the quip is that something has to be counted or measured to determine whether a university IP program … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Partial Patterns
We are attracted to patterns. A pattern appeals to our sense of order and gives us the impressing that things are following a law, can be predicted, everything in a system. It’s all nice. Innovation, however, may suggestion a change … Continue reading
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Four Ways of Innovation
Innovation isn’t a simple topic. As Benoît Godin has shown, for much of its existence “innovation” was a negative thing. You didn’t want to be called an innovator, and that’s what you called folks who were loons and threats. In … Continue reading
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The urge to tech transfer
Technology transfer refers to the movement of capability from one group to another. Three conventional forms are from a developed country to a developing country (send in the tractors, there have to be tractors); from one industry to another (wifi … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
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