Target reluctant deans, department heads to remove barriers to tech transfer

摘要

Are your tech transfer efforts being sabotaged? That may seem like a silly question more appropriate for a Hollywood script, but in fact many TTOs have experienced a subtle form of sabotage from their own deans and department heads who eschew innovation efforts in favor of more traditional tenure-focused activity like scientific papers and traditional grant-seeking among their researcher ranks. And while those activities are certainly valuable, some academic administrators implicitly favor them to the exclusion of commercialization efforts, in essence working at cross purposes with not only the TTO but even university leadership.