At Fuentek, we’re constantly monitoring industry literature and the blogosphere for the latest news, information, and trends. Several items have come up recently that I think should be required reading for tech transfer pros.
Yesterday I went to Washington with about two dozen other North Carolina small businesses to meet with several of our country’s legislative and executive leaders. It was a great opportunity—one that I hope will eventually lead to genuine action that supports the transition of innovations developed with federal funding into commercial applications. And I have a few ideas about how to do that.
You may have noticed that several universities and government labs are forming ready-to-sign patent licensing programs or other initiatives with new licensing terms. Many of these programs target startup companies, like the University of North Carolina’s Express License program or the DOE’s America’s Next Top Energy Innovator Challenge program, which offers startups options to license patents for $1K.
Yesterday I had the great privilege to participate in a roundtable discussion with several members of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness in Durham’s American Tobacco Historic District. As he kicked off the meeting, Obama’s top economic advisor Austan Goolsbee said that we “will never have a clearer line to the President’s ear than with the members of his Jobs Council that are here today.” Those members included AOL founder Steve Case, Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg, Citigroup chairman Richard Parsons, and UBS Americas chairman Robert Wolf. The topic? Entrepreneurship.
Monday kicked off the AUTM Eastern Region meeting in Baltimore. It was a day of good discussions and debate about how to encourage economic development through university technology transfer — the theme for the meeting. A series of sessions ran in logical succession on the topic of start-ups, the poster child for economic development.
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