Global Higher Education Technology Transfer Benchmarks 2013 Edition

This report looks closely at how 35 colleges and universities are handling their techology transfer and licensing practices. The study looks at spending on outside and staff lawyers, overall staffing, outsourcing, budgets, marketing, spin offs, home grown companies, licensing terms, use of consultants, trends in revenues by technology area, relations with private industry, partnerships, rights disputes, outreach to university faculty, and many other facets of univ ersity technology licensing and technology development and marketing practices. The study provides crucial benchmarking data for higher education technology transfer offices, including highly detailed data on budgets, staffing, employee tenure, salaries, legal costs both in-house and outsourced, legal disputes, research and library use, internal and external marketing and public relations, strategies for patent maintenance, cooperative partnerships with industry, relations with various academic departments, trends in the initiation of invention disclosure reports, and much more. Data is broken out for US and non US participants, and by institutional size and subject focus of the main technology licensing effort.

Global Higher Education Technology Transfer Office Benchmarks presents more than 220 pages of detailed data, commentary and analysis based on information provided by 35 university technology transfer offices in the USA, the UK and Europe. The study presents highly detailed information on budgets, staffing, use of internal and external legal services, partnerships, marketing efforts, faculty relations, and many other issues of concern to directors of higher education technology transfer offices and those who cooperate with or oversee them in industry and academic administration.Data in the study is broken out by geographic region, type of institution, enrollment of institution, size of technology transfer office and industry area that generates the most revenue for the office. Each participating technology transfer office fully completed a detailed questionnaire on staffing, salaries, budgets, legal services used internally and externally, public relations, marketing internally and externally, library services use, and partnering activities, among other issues.

Derived from our popular Global Higher Education Technology Transfer Office Benchmarks, this condensed report focuses solely on internal and external marketing efforts, developments in public relations, and the partnerships formed by tech transfer offices. With over 200 tables broken out by country, enrollment, technological area, institution, and number of employees, the report follows office trends and practices concerning invention disclosure reports, detailing the number of reports received each year since 2009 as well as the roles faculty members play in these processes. Among other concerns, the report investigates the public relations efforts of these offices, outlining department spending habits on several vehicles of marketing, including web advertising, mass mailings, and video and media productions. Do these offices partner with any foreign universities? Do they partner with any industry or company groups? These questions and more are answered in this 102-page report based on information provided by 35 university technology transfer offices in the US, the UK, and Europe.

Universities have become essential players in the generation of knowledge and innovation. Through the commercialization of technology, they have developed the ability to influence regional economic growth. By examining different commercialization models this book analyses technology transfer at universities as part of a national and regional system. It provides insight as to why certain models work better than others, and reaffirms that technology transfer programs must be linked to their regional and commercial environments. Using a global perspective on technology commercialization, this book divides the discussion between developed and developing counties according to the level of university commercialization capability. Critical cases as well as country reports examine the policies and culture of university involvement in economic development, relationships between university and industry, and the commercialization of technology first developed at universities. In addition, each chapter provides examples from specific universities in each country from a regional, national, and international comparative perspective. This book includes articles by leading practitioners as well as researchers and will be highly relevant to all those with an interest in innovation studies, organizational studies, regional economics, higher education, public policy and business entrepreneurship.

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