Category Archives: history
Just how many Termans do ya got there?
I was looking at some accounts of collaboration and found this wonderful symposium paper by AnnaLee Saxenian. It’s from 1995, but as it talks about the history of Silicon Valley, it is ever much insightful and relevant as ever to … Continue reading
The Effect of University Monopoly Licensing in 3d Printing
Inkjet powder 3d printers provide a useful case study for the effects of university exclusive patent licensing. In the early 90s, MIT researchers developed inkjet 3d printers. They built off much of the technology platform used for selective laser sintering … Continue reading
Free Agency
It has been a year and half since Arundeep Pradhan published his “defense” of the AUTM status quo in Business Week. If one looks at the comments to that article, one finds a string of pearls of insiders commending the … Continue reading
Rear View Research
I came across an interesting blog post by Jeff Henning. He provides an account of a talk at the University of Georgia by Stan Sthanuathan, VP of marketing strategy for Coca-Cola. Stan points out that a lot of industry research … Continue reading
Undoing the Work of the Grifters
When you clear away the BS, you may as easily get mystery as clarity. For innovation management, mystery is acceptable. I’ve been trying to get at what is going on with the present assignment push in universities. It appears to … Continue reading
Innovation Fiction
“Bewilderment, in its ancient and literal sense of being cast away in a trackless wild, was the lot of the explorer….” Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (p. 47 in the paperback edition). If you happen to be looking for a framework in … Continue reading
Universities went wrong early on Bayh-Dole
Here’s 37 CFR 401.14(a)(f) under the heading “Contractor Action to Protect the Government’s Interest”: (2) The contractor agrees to require, by written agreement, its employees, other than clerical and nontechnical employees, to disclose promptly in writing to personnel identified as … Continue reading
Invention, patent, vision
I am working to get at the root of why anyone would think a compulsory linear model, however driven and resourced, could possibly make any sense at all, especially in light of the last 30 years of dismal failure by … Continue reading
How to get through an open door
In a discussion over at the LinkedIn group SpinOut, there is a valuable discussion going on the matter of the University of Glasgow’s splash in the press about offering a free license (exclusive, apparently, even) to patented technology, if only … Continue reading
Thanksgiving
With this holiday in America being a time for giving thanks after the harvest and for the establishment of a constitutional government devoted to safety and happiness, making it a truly economic celebration built on a recognition of the good … Continue reading