Tuesday
17Apr2007
Working With Universities- A partnering guide for everybody
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 04:35PM A Guide to Establishing Efficient Working Relationships with Australian Universities
Emeritus Professor Chris Fell
Chair, Implementation Group
Science Industry Action Agenda
Professor Hans J. Griesser
University of South Australia
Chair, Implementation Group
Science Industry Action Agenda
Professor Hans J. Griesser
University of South Australia
1. Introduction
2. Characteristics of university research
3. Motivation of university researchers
4. Intellectual property considerations
5. Effective ways of engaging with academics
6. Costs and expectations
7. Support mechanisms
8. Conclusions
9. Table – Intellectual Property Policies Of Australian Universities
2. Characteristics of university research
3. Motivation of university researchers
4. Intellectual property considerations
5. Effective ways of engaging with academics
6. Costs and expectations
7. Support mechanisms
8. Conclusions
9. Table – Intellectual Property Policies Of Australian Universities
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Reader Comments (5)
This is a very useful document which gives a current overview of the issues concerning commercialisation of IP from Universities.
I assume that it is a 'living' document and suggest that this blog might be a good place for comments and critque to be posted which could be used in later version.
Thanks for the effort in putting this together
Mark Bradley, CEO ATP Innovations and former member of the Science Industry Action Agenda Implementation Group.
Science Industry welcomes comments and responses to this important document. Please leave your comments here or link through to your own website where you have left your comments.
I have recently written an opinion piece on the whole area of innovation and Proof of Concept.
It has been published in the July Edition of R&D Review and online at ScienceAlert.
If you are interested to access this article it is available at http://www.sciencealert.com.au/opinions/20072906-16057.html
Duncan Jones, Executive Director, SIA
When Hans and I completed "Working with Universities" and SIA posted it on its website, we were hoping that it would stimulate debate on this issue, which is considered to be of key importance to the Science Industry Action Agenda.
Could we strongly encourage you to put forward your comments on the document and the general issue of working with universities? We will use them to update what we wrote.
SIA is keen to discuss with the Commonwealth and State Governments deficiencies/strengths that need support in fostering industry-university relationships.
Your input would be invaluable.
In the recently released National Survey of Research Commercialisation (www.dest.gov.au/research/NSRCR03_04 <http://www.dest.gov.au/research/NSRCR03_04) it was reported that during the survey period the number of licences, options, assignments and start up companies fell.
If IP and spin-offs remained the only key KPI’s then the picture would not look good for the sector as the number of start-ups and execution of licences, options or assignments (LOAs) declined between 2000 – 2004. Moreover, the income from LOAs in 2004 ($59m) was less than the costs of research commercialisation activities in institutions ($70m).
The cost of commercialisation activities in 2004 was $70M which equates to about 400 full time staff.
This does not seem to be a great return.
* Australia has more commercialisation and licencing staff per institution than US, Canada and UK.
* invention disclosures are lower in Aus than US, Canada and UK (roughly half the rate)
* US Patents in Aus institutions are roughly twice that of UK institutions but half that or US and lower than Canada
* Aus has less than half the LOAs of UK, half that of Canada and less than US.
* LOA income is roughly comparable between UK and Aus, with both somewhat lower than Canada but all only a third that of the US institutions.
I would appreciate the thoughts of other subscribers to this conversation.