Field notes
Notes from the work.
Short notes from Dr. Nadir Yildirim on technology transfer, intellectual property, research commercialization and university–industry collaboration.
· University–industry collaboration
A note on industry's share of research
Qatar has written sustained research funding into law and plans to double research spending by 2030. That is a serious commitment, and it is unusual. A RAND Europe review published on 16…
· Intellectual property
A note on what a patent cannot protect
A patent is the thing we teach researchers to want. It is also the part of a position that is easiest to count, which is why it tends to become the part we manage. The CT scanner is the…
· Research commercialization
A note on the statistic that built technology transfer
Technology transfer has a founding number. Fewer than 5% of 28,000 federal patents had been licensed. It was used to argue for the Bayh-Dole Act, and forty-five years later it still turns…