Links to information on university-industry cooperation,
technology transfer, and entrepreneurship

David A. Hodges, 10/29/2007 hodges@eecs.berkeley.edu

Business-Higher Education Forum report: Working Together, Creating Knowledge

http://www.acenet.edu/bookstore/pdf/working-together.pdf

U.S. National Science Foundation and Federal SBIR Programs

http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/iucrc/ (Industry/University Cooperative Research Program)

http://www.erc-assoc.org/centers.htm  (Engineering Research Centers Program)

http://www.erc-assoc.org/manual/bp_index.htm (Best practices of successful Engineering Research Centers)

http://www.zyn.com/sbir/ (Small Business Innovation Research funding from U.S. Federal agencies)

Selected U.S. industry programs; intellectual property practices

http://grc.src.org/member/about.asp   (Semiconductor Research Corp.)

http://marco.fcrp.org/member/about/default.asp (Focus Centers Research Program)

http://www.sematech.org/  (SEMATECH--minor role for universities)

http://andros.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hodges/Protecting Intellectual Property.htm  (defensive publishing)

University of California’s policy on relationships with industry and on conflicts of interest

http://www.ucop.edu/ott/retreat/twoyear1.html  (progress report with attachments, March 2000)

http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/apm-028.pdf (policy on financial interests of UC faculty members)

http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/apm-025-07-01.pdf (policy on conflicts of commitment by UC faculty members)

University of California Office of Technology Transfer
(patent policy; licensing results; rights accorded to sponsors)

http://www.ucop.edu/ott/

http://www.ucop.edu/ucophome/policies/bfb/upay585.pdf (employee patent agreement)

http://www.ucop.edu/ott/genresources/annualrpts.html

Annual Reports of the UC Technology Transfer Program. FY05 report includes many specific examples of commercialization of UC technologies. FY06 report contains the most recent summary data.

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2006/feb27b.html

$100M + payment by Monsanto to UC for exclusive license for dairy cow growth hormone.

http://patron.ucop.edu/ottmemos/docs/ott00-02.html (optional rights assignment program for EE and CS, 2000-03)

http://patron.ucop.edu/ottmemos/docs/ott00-02b.html (supplementary guidance on above item)

http://patron.ucop.edu/ottmemos/docs/00-02-sup2.pdf  (indefinite extension of above item, dated 6/23/03)

http://patron.ucop.edu/ottmemos/ottmemos_toc.html (examples of agreements with various agencies and firms) 

http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/Tucker070426.pdf

"Testimony of William T. Tucker, Ph.D., M.B.A., Executive Director,

Research Administration and Technology Transfer, University of California, Office of the President",

concerning proposed U.S. patent reform act of 2007.

University of California Institutes for Science and Innovation

http://www.ucop.edu/california-institutes/welcome.html

UC Berkeley’s Department of EECS Industrial Relations Office

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/IPRO/  (direct contact point for industry)

Analyzing, teaching, and supporting entrepreneurship

http://mot.berkeley.edu/

http://entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu/bef.asp

http://bplan.berkeley.edu/

http://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html

http://www.upenn.edu/fisher/

http://akseli.tekes.fi/opencms/opencms/OhjelmaPortaali/ohjelmat/MASINA/fi/oma_sivu6/Commercialisation.pdf

"Commercialization of Research Results in the United States" by Magnus Karlsson, Science and Technology Counselor, Swedish Institute for Growth Policy Studies

http://www.stanford.edu/class/e145/protected/E145_2007_Session01_Byers.pdf

http://www.stanford.edu/class/e145/protected/E145_2006_Session09_VC.pdf

Excerpts from a Stanford University course by Tom Byers, respected California venture capitalist

http://sen.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Entrepreneurship Network

http://www.hqap.com/ H&Q Asia Pacific, a U.S.-style venture capital firm investing

in new enterprises in Asia.

http://www.kauffman.org/ Entrepreneuership & Education at the Kauffman Foundation

http://issues.org/23.4/litan.html “The University as Innovator: Bumps in the Road”