Reaping Long-Term Rewards from Strategic IP Portfolio Screening: Stories from...
Prioritizing an intellectual property (IP) portfolio is an important, and often huge, task for tech transfer offices (TTOs). In today’s Stories from the Field post, I share details of how an efficient...
View ArticleGetting Faculty on Your Side through Systematic Screening and Interns:...
A recent conversation on one of the AUTM® discussion groups focused on formalizing a technology transfer office's (TTO's) triage process. The director initiating the discussion was contemplating using...
View ArticleLess Is More: Commercialization Factors for Assessments
In working on technology assessments, it's important to consider the most critical factors in order to efficiently determine the commercialization potential of your technology. After you've done all of...
View ArticleWhy Can’t I Just Start Marketing? A Tech Transfer Webcast
Though it may be tempting to jump immediately into marketing an exciting technology that seems bound for tech transfer success, it’s important to look before you leap to ensure you’re making the best...
View ArticlePatent Filings Gone Wild (or The Biggest Mistake You Can Make Under the...
The impending shift from a "first to invent" to a "first inventor to file" structure under the recently passed America Invents Act is causing quite a bit of turmoil in the technology transfer industry....
View ArticlePrototyping Licenses: Another Angle on Evaluation Licenses for Technology...
A few months ago, the IP Marketing Blog discussed the OpenUlster program at the University of Ulster in Ireland and its evaluation license. It caught my attention for its efforts to streamline...
View ArticleWorth Reading: New Reports, Congressional Testimony
Three items in the news during the past few days have caught my attention, and I think you should give them yours. They are a report released June 14th by the National Research Council of the National...
View ArticleStreamlined/Low-Cost Licensing: Making Sure Faster and Cheaper Are Better
I read with interest two recent news stories about technology transfer offices (TTOs) looking to increase licensing deals by addressing two oft-cited barriers: high costs and long negotiation times....
View ArticleInsights, Best Practices on Tech Transfer, Startups at Portugal Meeting
Just before Christmas, I had the privilege of attending the annual conference of the University Technology Enterprise Network (UTEN), an organization dedicated to (in their words) "professionalizing...
View ArticleExternal Advisory Boards: A Short-Term Tool for Tech Transfer (or “Not Mr....
I was recently asked for my insights about technology transfer office (TTO) use of external advisory boards or committees. Such boards have been frequently cited in reports and the press as a useful...
View ArticleWhat to Do When a Patent Is a Couch Potato: An AUTM-Eastern Session
I'm back, with another post about the AUTM® Eastern Region Meeting, which I first blogged about last week. Today's topic: The workshop session "Strategies to Offload Patents that Are Doing Nothing for...
View ArticleThe Problem with Startup Metrics: Kicking Off the “Metrics Monday” Blog Series
Several months ago, a read an article called "Are Universities Creating Too Many Biotech Startups?" At the time I thought: The question is not how many startups should a university do, but why are they...
View ArticleLess Is More: Commercialization Factors for Assessments
In working on technology assessments, it's important to consider the most critical factors in order to efficiently determine the commercialization potential of your technology. After you've done all of...
View ArticleWhy Can’t I Just Start Marketing? A Tech Transfer Webcast
Though it may be tempting to jump immediately into marketing an exciting technology that seems bound for tech transfer success, it’s important to look before you leap to ensure you’re making the best...
View ArticlePatent Filings Gone Wild (or The Biggest Mistake You Can Make Under the...
The impending shift from a "first to invent" to a "first inventor to file" structure under the recently passed America Invents Act is causing quite a bit of turmoil in the technology transfer industry....
View ArticlePrototyping Licenses: Another Angle on Evaluation Licenses for Technology...
A few months ago, the IP Marketing Blog discussed the OpenUlster program at the University of Ulster in Ireland and its evaluation license. It caught my attention for its efforts to streamline...
View ArticleHow-To Tips for Corporate Licensing Officers Looking for...
Universities and government labs -- especially in the United States -- are keen to transfer technologies into commercial ventures. It can be tough, but not impossible, for corporates to engage with...
View ArticleLean Startup Principles Apply to Tech Transfer: A Dispatch from Poland
As I find myself back in Poland to deliver another round of training courses on entrepreneurship to university researchers, I’m reminded of Steve Blank’s fireside chat at the AUTM® national meeting in...
View Article5 Keys to Tech Transfer “Reboot” Success
I’ve blogged before about technology transfer offices (TTOs) that are entering a new phase of life. Today I’d like to share Fuentek’s recommendations for the top of your To-Do List for rebooting a TTO....
View ArticleConsolidating Multi-Campus Tech Transfer: The Foundation Option
Two weeks ago Tech Transfer Central's eNews Blog featured a new effort by the Purdue Research Foundation to pool its resources with several related organizations -- including other research centers and...
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