Deerfield, IL — The Alliance of Technology Transfer Professionals (ATTP) was formally established March 17, 2010, at the Annual Meeting of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). ATTP’s objective is to lead the development of the technology transfer profession and its practitioners by promoting recognition, progress and knowledge sharing among the global technology transfer community. ATTP is a not-for-profit corporation registered in the UK.
Participating organizations include the Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP), the Association of Technology Managers in Taiwan (ATMT), AUTM, Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia (KCA), and PraxisUnico.
“The creation of ATTP represents the next major step in the development of the academic technology transfer profession,” said Ashley J. Stevens, D.Phil. (Oxon), CLP, AUTM president.
“Academic technology transfer is now recognized around the world as a vitally important profession that transfers innovations resulting from public sector research to the private sector for commercialization and economic development, and ATTP is the international professional body set up to lead the development of that profession and its practitioners,” said Kevin Edward Cullen, Ph.D., Director of Research & Enterprise, University of Glasgow. Cullen, who has been a member of the Boards of ASTP, AUTM and PraxisUnico, and who was instrumental in the founding of ATTP, added, “ATTP was created by the leading international, practitioner-led associations in order to establish professional recognition processes, standards and mechanisms. We look forward to other, like-minded associations joining the Alliance to advance technology transfer globally.”
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