From Lab to Market: Commercialization of Public Sector Technology / Edition 1

by S.K. Kassicieh, H.R. Radosevich

Overview

The topic of this book, the commercialization of public-sector technology, continues to grow in importance in the United States and sirnilarsocieties. The issues involved are relevant to many roles including those of policy makers, managers, patent attorneys, licensing agents, and technical staff members of public technology sources. Institutions increasingly involved in the process include federal and other governmentallaboratories and their related agencies, public universities and their state governments, public and private transfer agents and, of course, all the private recipients of public technology. Scarcely a day goes by without a significant event related to technology transfer and commercialization. The popular business press is regularly carrying articles addressing the issues, explaining new initiatives and describing events of notable success or failure.[l] As an example of current important events, the Technology Reinvestment Project (TRP) is forrnu­ lating its initiatives totransfer public technology and promote technology-based publiclprivate partnerships as a collaboration between the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Science Foundation (NSF) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Department of Energy, Defense Programs (DOE/DP).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306447174
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	07/31/1994
Series:	Language of Science Series
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

PublicSector Technology Commercialization: Problems, Practices, and Prescriptions: The King Solomon Role in PublicSector Technology Commercialization (R. Radosevich, S. Kassicieh). Technology Transfer in a Time of Transition (B. Berger). Participant Roles in PublicSector Technology Commercialization: Technology Needs (L.G. Tornatzky, B. Ostrowiecki). The Other Roles of the Inventor in MIT's Technology Transfer Process (C. Jansen). Public Sector Technology Commercialization: Mechanisms and Processes: Creating Commercial Value (F.T. Janis). Building the Knowledge Asset (T. McKinley). Prescriptive Paradigms in PublicSector Technology Commercialization: The New Role of the Federal Laboratories (G. Kozmetsky). Managing the Business Knowledge Process (D.M. Hogna). 25 additional articles. Index.

Editorial Reviews

Most derived from a March 1993 conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 33 papers by entrepreneurs, academics, and policy makers review issue involved in turning private profit from publicly funded scientific research in government, university, and other laboratories; and advise the ambitious on how to slip the golden egg from one nest to another without riling up the goose. The sections cover the importance of commercialization, the roles of the various participants, mechanisms and processes, and prescriptive paradigms. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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