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Tag Archives: Technology Transfer
Tech Transfer Summit North America
The National Institutes of Health, BIO, and others are sponsoring the Tech Transfer Summit North America at NIH on 3-4 October 2011. Programming includes Translational Medicine & Funding Innovation, Successful Implementation of Biotech Innovation Strategies Worldwide, and Building Better Academia-Industry Collaborations: How will Big Pharma fill its early-stage Pipeline in 5 years’ time, among other topics. BIO’s President and CEO James C. Greenwood will give one keynote speach on the ”Barriers to Innovation in biotechnology, and Read More >
Bayh Dole Act a Failure? Part II: The Comments
By Guest Joseph Allen Yesterday we posted the reply of Robin Rasor, President of the Assn of University Technology Managers, to a Washington Post opinion piece by Vivek Wadhwa asserting that the university/industry technology transfer model established under the Bayh-Dole Act had failed and should be replaced. The article set off a series of comments, the most interesting of which occurred when Mr Wadhwa challenged Rasor to document the statistics she used asserting the Bayh-Dole Read More >
Bayh Dole Act a failure?
By Guest Writer Joseph Allen One hotly debated topic in Washington of real importance to the biotechnology community is how well the annual multi-billion dollar federal investment in R&D is being translated into new products, jobs and companies needed to improve the lives of US taxpayers and help pull the US economy out of its current doldrums. An interesting insight on the debate is captured in a Washington Post article “Innovation’s golden opportunity” that ran Read More >
Taiwan’s Translational Research (or lack thereof)
Brady Huggett concludes in this article that, “… perhaps the biggest strike against Taiwan is a lack of translational research. There is no collective mindset that envisions products from research. And if biotech is to drive the future economies of countries around the globe, there has to be nationwide efforts to turn academic research and publicly-funded lab work into something that can benefit patients and be sold. We’ve talked about it before on this blog Read More >
