CURATED RESOURCES
Council of Government Relations
Technology Transfer in U.S. Research Universities: Dispelling Common Myths by Council of Governmental Relations. Although inventions developed at research universities consistently continue to improve the lives of Americans, several myths and criticisms have persisted among faculty, staff and students as well as the public at large. One of the most common myths is that universities engage in these activities primarily for financial gain at the expense of conflicts of interest. This publication addresses these questions and concerns. COGR, established in 1948, is an association of 200 leading universities and research institutions and is nationally recognized as the technical expert on a wide range of research policy issues.
Technology Transfer Central’s Resources
Technology Transfer Tactics is the world’s most widely read and respected independent publication for tech transfer professionals has been published monthly since it debuted in May 2007. Its monthly issues offer unique, practical, and advanced strategies, how-to content, case studies, best practices, and expert guidance on a broad range of challenges and opportunities for technology transfer offices and professionals. Includes 17 years of archives filled with best practices, case studies, and success strategies for TTOs , best practices, expert advice, metrics, benchmarks, data and tools, and archives from over a decade of strategy-filled articles and newsletters.
2Market Information offers free online publications Tech Transfer eNews Blog and Tech Transfer University Reporter.
Also, Online Tech Transfer Resource Center with sample documents, data, metrics, policies & procedures, regulatory information, tools, benchmarks, and much more.
Books, Reports and Tools
Tech Transfer Central offers books and reports — including its popular Best Practices books — as well as partnering with other information providers so that a broad array of resources for tech transfer, licensing, legal, and other professionals could be offered in one place. These resources include royalty rate and IP valuation references, patent law guidebooks, valuation and technology assessment software and tools, market research reports, TTO benchmarking resources, certification programs, directories, and databases among others.
University-Industry Engagement Advisor
Industry-Sponsored Research Management is a monthly newsletter which was the first and only publication devoted to helping to expand and expertly manage this increasingly critical aspect of the university’s research enterprise. After two-years of publishing Industry-Sponsored Research Management, it was relaunched as University-Industry Engagement Advisor to better reflect the many aspects of holistic corporate partnership development while continuing to cover key issues and success strategies for forming and managing research collaborations. A free weekly e-zine, University-Industry Engagement Week, was concurrently launched with the same holistic approach to industry engagement.
The Lemelson Foundation Invention Notebook
Be inspired by reading about the impact made by inventors, innovators and thought leaders who come from all ages and places, creating inventions as unique as their backgrounds, to solve problems they encounter. They see a challenge — whether global, local or personal — and are inspired to find a solution.
Academic Entrepreneurship for Medical and Health Scientists
Academic Entrepreneurship for Medical and Health Scientists is a free Open Education Resource that seeks to support and grow a new academic research community of Boundary Spanners – those who work in academia and with industry in order to realize the potential of basic discoveries that support the process of translational research through to commercialization and impact. This eBook is a repository of tools, wisdom and best practice that seeks to democratize innovation regardless of where the academic researcher resides. There are more than 50 chapters of material, divided across the five major sections: Academia, People, Ideation, IP/Reg, and Finance.