tech transfer

The authors report results of a survey of industry licensing executives who identified personal contacts between their research and development staff and university personnel as the most important source of university technologies.

The report presents a comprehensive look at the principal issues currently being addressed by agencies and their private sector partners. Suggested goals are provided for agencies and
their partners to strive for in order to meet challenges.

The senior principal associate with Battelle Memorial Institute examines the importance of state universities’ patent and licensing agreements to economic development plans and provides policy makers with strategies for promoting university-industry technology transfer.

The paper by the Council on Government Relations provides a good primer on the subject from the perspective of the academic institution. The document also provides the historical and political framework for university involvement in technology transfer as well as advice on establishing an intellectual property (IP) policy and managing IP assets.

The report from the Association of University Technology Managers commercialization of academic research indicates that business activity associated with sales of products from academic research last year is estimated to have generated $5 billion in tax revenues in the U.S. at the federal, state, and local levels. Responding to the survey were 139 U.S. universities (including 94 of the top 100 research universities), 29 U.S. teaching hospitals and research institutes, 20 Canadian institutions, and one patent management firm.

The purpose of this digest is to define and discuss technology transfer in the context of higher education. Examples of university technology transfer are given, and issues surrounding the topic are discussed.

The report explains the methods of technology
transfer employed by Koreas public and private sectors. A key component for Koreas rapidly developing its own industrial infrastructure, according to the report, is the assimilation of technology and management techniques developed by more industrialized nations, especially the United States.

The study analyzes returns to investments in Nigers research and technology transfer system for millet, sorghum, and cowpea between 1975 and 1991. Sixty-eight percent of the countrys public-sector outlays for agricultural research and 58 percent of its agricultural researchers were devoted to research on these three crops between 1986 and 1990.