Ten ways to bolster tech transfer

Universities pride themselves in their ability to innovate, yet they don’t do a good job in getting those innovations to market. In “A Different Prescription,” ASU’s Rick Shangraw, senior vice president of the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development, and Augustine Cheng, managing director & chief legal officer for Arizona Technology Enterprises, detail 10 “prescriptions for technology transfer that may not cure the patient, but would certainly revive it and put it on the solid path to recovery.”

Among the 10 ideas: Hire skilled people who understand both the university and industrial environments; become a service to your faculty and not a revenue machine; create venture accelerators; and reward innovation. The article appears in the July 28 issue of Inside High Ed.