tech transfer

Highlights of the FY03 survey include: 15,510 invention disclosures were reported by 198 institutions, up 7.7 percent from FY02; 7,921 new U.S. patent applications were filed by 194 institutions, up 8.2 percent; and 3,933 U.S. patents issued in fiscal year 2003 reported by 195 institutions, up 12.3 percent

This paper examines the role that trade plays in economic development through the channel of technology transfer, approximated by total factor productivity.

The report documents some of the significant discoveries and innovations made by Ohios academic researchers and highlights how the technology transfer offices have translated those innovations into companies, jobs, and economic growth.

Drawing on the loose coupling and organizational modularity literature, the authors discuss appropriate intra-university relationships between groups engaged in technology transfer and entrepreneurship education.

The author suggests that it may be illuminating to view one goal of the basic research endeavor as the production of a curiosity-driven demand function for basic research that can serve as a proxy for the socially optimal (but unknowable) demand function for unpredictable research.

This paper reviews the evidence on university-industry interactions and technology transfer, focusing in particular on the role of the Bayh-Dole Act in (allegedly) transforming this relationship. The author also examines recent research that considers the Act’s effects on the formation of new, knowledge-based firms that seek to exploit university inventions.

The report highlights models of university tech transfer and commercialization, related efforts such as entrepreneurship programs, and the infrastructure and environment needed to support commercialization efforts in Connecticut.

The study from the Association of Academic Health Centers reviews the academic-industrial and governmental partnership created by the act and issues of debate and conflict that surround this legislation so often credited with advancing the
commercialization of research and opening an era of technology transfer.

According to the author, archaic tax laws need to be revised together with more enlightened tax administration to implement and encourage technology transfer to bring about a rising economy of increased wages and corporate profits producing the income and tax revenues needed to reduce the deficits and meet the demands of our new economy.

Highlights of the FY04 survey include: Research funding at U.S. institutions was up 7.1 percent and staffing levels were up 4.9 percent to an average 4.3 licensing FTEs per office; Invention disclosures among U.S. institutions increased to 16,871, up 8.8 percent, while patents issued decreased 6.4 percent to 3,680.