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University Based Technology Transfer
Steve BauerDirector, RERC on Technology Transfer
State of the Science ConferenceRERC on Advancing Cognitive TechnologiesBarriers to the Flow of Intellectual PropertyOctober 25-26, 2007Denver, Colorado
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Acknowledgements
• NIDRR
• RERC on Advancing Cognitive Technologies– Cathy Bodine, Michael Lightner
• RERC on Technology Transfer– UB colleagues & friends
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Patents and Trademarks Act
• Governing legislation– Nonprofits receiving federal $ (universities+)– Assigns IP ownership to non-profits
• Objectives– utilization of Federal R&D inventions– small business benefitting from Federal R&D– collaboration of nonprofits and private sector– increase competition and enterprise– commercialize Federal R&D inventions
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Patents and Trademarks Act
• Assignee responsibilities– disclose assignment to funding agency– seek patent protection for invention– grant non-exclusive rights to funding agency– commercialize invention– cannot re-assign invention– share royalties with inventor
Public benefit…NOT university enrichment
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TTO Metrics• Royalties+• # Licenses• # Equity Positions• # Patents• # Patent Applications• # Market Reports• # Disclosures (Faculty)
Corollaries: home runs, large & known markets, health sciences & engineering, IP gatekeepers…
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AUTM 2004 Annual Survey
• 196 universities• 96 of 100 top universities• 84.5% of respondents (196 of 232)
• $40.2B total revenue
• $27.6B federal 65.7%• $2.9B private 7.2% [25%]
• $1.4B royalty+ 3.5%
9.6~1.0
total > federal > private > license
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Business Metrics
• Students• Faculty• Infrastructure• Collaborative research (non-IP)• Consortia (IP)• Technology
– licensing– start ups
Reference: AUTM 2006, U. Minnesota Manufacturer Survey
In all cases, IP needs to be
resolved up front
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Faculty Metrics
• Research• Funding
– State & Federal– Corporate
• Publications• Patents…• Tenure• Teaching• Mentorship• Service• Recognition
NOT disclosuresNOT intellectual propertyNOT business cultureNOT startupsNOT SBIR/STTR
Disclosure ~ conference paper? Patent ~ journal paper?License ~ grant?
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Recommendations
• University– new success metrics (total > private/public > royalty),
combine TTO & SR, TTO (service provider), faculty AND corporations (customers), new TTO funding formula
• Faculty– new faculty metrics, regular proactive communication,
teach (business culture, disclosures, intellectual property, business start up, SBIR/STTR…)
• Disclosure– short, lay, market, technology, competition, IP,
business plan, contact, references
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Recommendations
• Companies– adopt company metrics, establish network, regular
proactive communication, practice business culture, all sizes & types, champion
• Brokering – inventor > direct marketing > reputable journals >>
other
• Intellectual property– adopt due diligence (intent of B.D.), patent, don’t fight
over “new” IP (with companies, other universities)
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Recommendations
• Licensing– exploratory, access to inventor
• Development– SBIR/STTR, R&D facilities, on campus R&D,
incubators, start up funding, non-IP R&D, consortia
• Other– knowledge & experience, contracts & collaborations
business, technical, market… legal
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Questions?
Thank You!
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