Cities of Innovation
Geoffrey West in Edge 343 (WHY CITIES KEEP GROWING, CORPORATIONS AND PEOPLE ALWAYS DIE, AND LIFE GETS FASTER): “Well, Google is a bit of an exception, because it still tolerates some of that. But most...
View ArticleProjects, the Treatment for Fool’s Dream Virus
The gulf between the Supreme Court decision in Stanford v Roche and the push in universities for present assignments is huge. The Court decided the question whether Bayh-Dole was a vesting statute....
View ArticleExtending Affiliates Programs
“Affiliates programs” are generally donation-based financial support programs for university departments and schools. In exchange for a membership fee, an affiliate program participant gets various...
View ArticleNot Again!
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, at one strange point a whale and a bowl of petunias come into existence and have only a few moments to come to grips with their situation. In about five...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Chapter LES Software Conference
Next Wednesday, Nov 13, UC Berkeley and the Silicon Valley Chapter of LES are hosting a one-day conference on “software and copyright IP commercialization.” If you are in the Bay Area, or need an...
View ArticleA Redtail’s Dream for University IP Management
Two years ago, Minna Sundberg, an art and design student at the University of Art and Design (now Aalto University) in Helsinki, decided to create a web comic for “practice.” She started drawing a...
View ArticleThe University Conversion Experience, Part 1
The second “pillar” of university innovation is the formation of “projects.” But just what is a project, and why are projects so important? To get into this subject, let’s start with some particulars...
View ArticleThe University Conversion Experience, Part 2
In Part I of “The University Conversion Experience” I described the problems faced when an organization supported by a university becomes trapped in claims by the university administration that the...
View ArticleTransferwell
I followed a link from Kottke.org to an Atlantic Monthly article by Derek Thompson about how to choose a charity to support based on effectiveness of action rather than effectiveness of pitch or pride...
View ArticleHow university exclusive patent licensing suppresses commercialization pathways
A number of university licensing officers have made a big deal about exclusive patent licenses. The exclusive license, they argue, is the key advantage they have over the federal government’s typical...
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