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Project Title:
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Management of University Intellectual Property: Lessons from a Generation of Experience, Research, and Dialogue
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PIN:
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STEP-Q-07-02-A
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Major Unit:
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Sub Unit:
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Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy
Committee on Science, Technology and Law
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RSO:
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Merrill, Steve
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Project Scope
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An ad hoc committee under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy and the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law will conduct a consensus study distilling lessons from research and experience since the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 for the acquisition, licensing, defense, and sale of intellectual property arising from publicly and privately sponsored research at U.S. academic institutions. The project will involve commissioning papers synthesizing existing research, commissioning a survey of research sponsors, university officials, and licensees, holding a national conference, evaluating the various objectives of technology transfer, and recommending best practices for research institutions and research sponsors. Those practices will take into account significant differences in the role of intellectual property in different fields of technology, differences in the constraints on and resources of universities, objectives of different research sponsors, and differences among potential commercial licensees of university-owned intellectual property. The incentives that influence the behavior of researchers, administrators, and public policy makers will be examined and related to public goods. This project is sponsored by 10 foundations: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Robertson Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Anonymous Foundation, FasterCures Center, Milken Institute, HighQ Foundation, Myelin Repair Foundation, and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The approximate start date for the project is June 1, 2007. The report will be issued at the end of the project in approximately 20 months.
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Project Duration:
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20 months
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