Word: transferal
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...Tech transfer is “a lottery business,” says Lita L. Nelsen, the director of MIT’s technology licensing office. A single invention can be akin to hitting the jackpot...
...tech transfer is a lottery, then Harvard has fewer tickets than some of its peers. The University successfully patented only 34 inventions in fiscal year 2006, out of its 161 applications. MIT, by contrast, was issued 121 patents from its 321 filings...
...tech transfer field, Harvard’s hopes rest on the shoulders of Senior Associate Provost Isaac T. Kohlberg, who arrived here in 2005. Before that, Kohlberg led tech transfer efforts at Tel Aviv University and at New York University School of Medicine. In that last post, he commanded a salary of nearly $1.3 million, making him the highest-paid administrator in academia, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education...
...Harvard, Kohlberg united the traditionally detached Cambridge and Longwood tech transfer offices into one operation, the Office of Technology Development (OTD). “He clearly changed it from a fiefdom sort of scenario into more of a university-wide phenomenon,” says George M. Church, a professor of genetics at the Medical School...
...bring science and the useful arts to industry,” says Nelsen, the institute’s tech transfer director. “It did not have to go through this prolonged cultural questioning that Harvard did about whether it was appropriate for the academy and the industry...