Talk:University technology transfer offices

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Some other stuff

 * The Kauffman Foundation strongly supports entrepreneurship and has studied/tracked the field of tech transfer. Lots of good stuff on their website that you could use for sourcing, including this overview report.


 * Interestingly around 2009 Kauffman began advocating for "inventor free-agency" - namely that bayh-dole should be changed to allow inventors to take their inventions anywhere. They viewed the system established by bayh-dole as monopolistic and inefficient.  See  and especially


 * The book -- -- is a pretty good summary of one stream of criticism of tech transfer.  Good review of that book here:


 * Another stream of criticism is that by over-enthusiastically patenting inventions, tech transfer offices create patent thickets and a tragedy of the anticommons. Rebecca Eisenberg and Michael Heller have been the main proponents of that (discussed in the "tragedy" WP article)


 * here is another critical article, long, with lots of reporting:


 * Great piece from Stanford's history department about why Stanford is so successful, here.

you may find these helpful.. Jytdog (talk) 18:39, 30 October 2017 (UTC)