Government and University TechTransfer

Slate is chief executive officer of Arizona Technology Enterprises at Arizona State University, a new venture charged with taking promising technologies out of professors’ laboratories and helping companies turn them into new products and services.

"We want to create as many viable companies as we can and bring as much into the university as we can," Slate said of the venture’s goals.

America’s leading universities in crop biotechnology are cracking down on how they license corporations such as DuPont Co. and Monsanto Co. to use their patented genes and transplant techniques. By SCOTT KILMAN Staff Reporter of…

Increasingly, scientists have to know their way around a financial statement as well as their own labs.

Successful licensing of research results (sometimes referred to as undeveloped technology) created in universities or federal laboratories is difficult. By Jon Sandelin InnovationMatters t e c h i n g r o u p ….

"Many universities are just now figuring out how to do this," admits Dykes. "For some, it may involve changing policies regarding conflict-of-interest issues for faculty who want to get involved in start-ups. You need to develop strong policies that help them get involved in an appropriate way, rather than keep them from getting involved at all."

"The university didn’t have a good tech transfer office. There was just no mechanism there. I think that’s changed completely now. It used to be a hurdle getting through the tech transfer office. Now they’re my friends."

One of the greatest challenges for university technology transfer offices (TTOs) trying to maximizing commercialization of university technologies is convincing faculty researchers to disclose their inventions, reveals the survey results described in a new working…

Universities depend on relationships with companies as a source of funding for programs, but can open doorways to ultimately providing graduates with jobs or internships.

"Seeds of Prosperity suggests that the state must learn a new set of rules in order to be competitive within the knowledge economy"

Since her inauguration in January, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano has pushed legislation intended to increase university tech transfer and commercialization. But will it work? Do economic incentives really encourage university researchers to pursue commercialization goals?…