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Useful Stats II: 2006 AUTM Survey Results by State
Every year, the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) releases its U.S. Licensing Activity Survey. The most recent version provides information on fiscal year 2006 (see the Dec. 5, 2007 issue of the Digest) and contains data for 189 universities, hospitals and research institutions. SSTI has prepared a table sorting the survey respondents by state and aggregating a number of key metrics such as the number of full-time employees in licensing staffs; research expenditures; number of patents or options executed; cumulative active licenses; startup companies; U.S. patents issued; new patent applications; and, licensing income.
Eight of this year's survey respondents were not identified by name, so SSTI was not able to align the data for these institutions with their respective states. As a result, while the table illustrates the relative amount of licensing activity in each state, it may not reflect the exact totals as self-reported by the responding institutions.
In terms of start-up companies emerging from survey respondents, California universities led the U.S. with 69 new companies in FY 2006. This is followed by institutions in Massachusetts (55), New York (38), Illinois (32), Utah (26) and Ohio (23). Overall, in the U.S., 553 start-ups were launched through the efforts of university technology transfer offices.
California institutions also rank first for the number of U.S. patents issued, joined by Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania. Survey respondents’ totals for the year came out to 3,255 patents issued. In terms of FY06 licensing income, Massachusetts led the pack, followed by California, New York, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
SSTI's table is available at http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/032608t.htm.
To view AUTM’s report, U.S. Licensing Activity Survey FY 2006, please visit
http://autm.net/events/file/AUTM_06_US%20LSS_FNL.pdf. Detailed data is available to AUTM members. For more information on joining AUTM, visit http://autm.net/.