Government and University TechTransfer

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University/Industry Partnerships Work: Don’t Kill the Golden Goose

If universities were run like businesses, they would not perform basic research designed to push forward the frontiers of learning.

$100k tech transfer grants prove too big for most New Zealand firms

The TTVs are aimed at businesses without in-house research capability, but which need new and innovative products to increase profit and market share.

Letter to Secretary Locke – Recommendation to Facilitate University-Based Technology Commercialization

Although the specifics of our strategies will vary, reflecting the diverse missions and resources of our institutions, we pledge our universities to greater efforts to advance regional and national economic growth. We are dedicated to ensuring that the knowledge and technological breakthroughs developed at our institutions are rapidly and broadly disseminated to advance the nation’s social and economic interests.

Innovation’s golden opportunity

If university research was a business, it would be bankrupt.

Best Practices for Technology Transfer

Regardless of the motive for technology transfer, the key objective of the transfer is to run the manufacturing process at the receiving site with no or minimal changes from the original process developed at the sending site.

UT as tech engine: myth and reality

University technology transfer offices (TTO) are a bottleneck.

New tool to help universities manage intellectual property

The new guide will be an invaluable resource for vice-chancellors and senior managers in universities.

Connecting researchers and companies

"Many times people outside the university just don’t know who to contact, and faculty may not know how they should interact with business."

University of Washington hopes new leader will boost spinoffs from labs

Though it receives more federal research money than any other public university — and twice as much as Utah — Washington’s flagship university spun off only half as many companies in 2009, according to the survey released this year by the Association of University Technology Managers.

Miami students looking to turn university invention into cash

"More universities have to do that now. We’re supposed to be engines of economic development."