A neat bit of wordplay takes place when people talk about whether U.S. research universities need to change their strategies for commercializing the inventions and patents that arise from on-campus labs. This particular debate involves two camps: those who believe universities are underfunded, and those who believe they’re underperforming.
The first camp, the ”Underfunders,” are in favor of the current approach. They claim that the university unit that patents and licenses inventions – aka the technology transfer office — is doing fine but just needs more money. This is the stepping off point for this group’s recommendation that the best solution would be for the feds to give universities more money to keeping doing what it’s doing, but bigger: hire more staff, set up lots of entrepreneur networking events, institute on-campus classes to teach professors how to be better at business, and build proof of concept centers.
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Author: MELBA KURMAN
