Posts Tagged: university startups
The Evolution of University Technology Transfer: By the Numbers
In recent years there has been a paradigmatic shift towards commercializing technology through startups. There is a universal understanding that university inventions are in early technology readiness …
A Practical Guide to Startup Funding
What if your startup is a university startup based on university developed and patented technology? The goal is not only to create a domestic corporation, but also …
Open Letter Exaggerates the Benefits of Recent Patent Reforms
HTIA’s letter argues that venture capital funding and startup activity have grown in recent years, further proof of their view that the federal government has properly …
AUTM Licensing Survey: Ominous trend likely attributable to eroding patent rights
Concerns about the ability of academic institutions to keep contributing to the U.S. innovation economy go well beyond federal funding stagnation according to the recent AUTM …
The changing face of university technology transfer
Today (TTOs) are increasingly being run by professionals who are experienced in startups, licensing, monetizing and have tremendous depth of technical knowledge in a variety of fields. …
Benefit of the Secondary Patent Market to Startups
The validity of secondary markets for a variety of goods and services is never questioned. Securities are sold and resold many times after their initial offering, homes …
Innovation only occurs when entrepreneurs are incentivized to take risks
Believing that innovation does not come from risk taking inventors, entrepreneurs, start ups, or even from the likes of Silicon Valley, is naïve in the extreme. …
The Quid Pro Quo – How Bad Patents Can Harm A Startup Company
There are many examples of patents that had virtually no value because the claims were undetectable, unenforceable, or ridiculously narrow. In the process of getting a worthless …
Tech Transfer 101: It’s A Better World with University Technology
AUTM collects quantitative data and facts about the benefits of university tech transfer, but the qualitative evidence is actually the most important. With the Better World Report, …
Does University Patent Licensing Pay Off?
Patent licensing or creating new companies is not a get rich quick path for schools despite the occasional blockbuster invention or Google spin-out. Indeed, enriching universities is …
