The subject of how effective
universities are at commercializing technologies they develop is a
suddenly hot topic. Prodded in part by the Kauffman Foundation’s critical and controversial
call this winter for turning academic inventors into free agents to
stimulate innovation, the federal government convened university and industry leaders last month
to discuss how to speed the movement of research into the market place.
The Association of University Technology Managers rejects the view, explicit in the Kauffman proposal and implicit in last month’s federal summit, that the current system of university technology transfer is flawed. AUTM argues that investing more money in the current setup will propel more innovation and commercialization.
We think both sides are wrong in their embrace of the profit motive as a stimulator for university research innovation, and suggest a more fundamental rethinking of the use of commercialization as a way to get academic innovations into the market.
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