Category Archives: Projects
DIWO
Check out biocurious.org for an interesting take on the “do it with others” (DIWO) effort to extend co-working to scientific research. Here’s the good comment on paper credentials. “The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.” In a … Continue reading
Lab Budgets
A post over on Techno-L caught my eye. It asked if anyone had dealt with cost recovery for business and lab costs in dealing with licensing income. A number of responses lay out the party line on what patent licensing … Continue reading
Don’t Be a Title-Retentive Bureauklept
I’ve written a bunch on this topic. Here’s a shorter restatement of the previous posts. Patent rights under Bayh-Dole do not vest outright with the university, but rather with inventors as rights in personal property. Title to inventions in Bayh-Dole … Continue reading
Solheim Lab Microwave Kiln Micro-donation Project
As part of RTEI’s efforts to promote new forms of inquiry such as research-based art, we have been working with the Solheim Lab at the University of Washington. The lab has a blog for their open 3d printing initiative, which … Continue reading
An Example
Here’s an example of a points of engagement analysis. This is something that I worked up some time ago. Consider a university as a set of nested administrative units: Central — Senior Administrators Colleges — Deans Departments — Chairs Labs– … Continue reading
Points of Engagement
In Culture and Prosperity, John Kay observes that “we work in organizations, earn as individuals, and consume as households.” A similar observation can be made of university research–faculty work in a university context, as principal investigators take on research with … Continue reading