A paper and book referenced by Scott Sherman at the two recent UTEN Initiation Brainstorms on social entrepreneurship are now available for download:
Changing the World: The Science of Transformative Action
By Scott Sherman (2011)
[213 KB PDF]
World Change 2.0: Creating a Blueprint for Social Transformation
By Scott Sherman (2011)
[2.7 MB PDF]
Scott Sherman is a Senior Fellow in Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation at the Dell Social Innovation Competition. He is also Executive Director and co-founder of the Transformative Action Institute.
Sherman’s research is focused on what separates the most successful social change campaigns from those that fail. His findings indicate that most traditional attempts to change the world, including politics, law, and even science, are unsuccessful. The most successful strategies look much like the new field of social entrepreneurship.
See the Resources pages from the workshops (IB#5 and IB#6) for additional downloads as they become available.
The University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP) will host another free industry showcase webinar on Wednesday, June 22nd from 12:00-1:30 pm EDT (17h00-18h30 Portugal time).
Dr. David Fischhoff, Vice President Strategic Technology Assessment & Development Technology Division at Monsanto Company, will provide an overview of their partnering strategies.
From the UIDP website:
Monsanto’s Technology (R&D) organization employs a comprehensive alliance strategy that seeks to deliver continued innovation with a wide variety of partners. Dr. David Fischhoff, Vice President of Technology Strategy and Development for Monsanto, will describe the types of R&D partnerships Monsanto engages in and the value that they create for all parties involved. Multiple examples will be provided to illustrate the broad scope of Monsanto’s R&D-focused relationships. These include monetary and material gifts, licensing of intellectual property, research funding and product co-development. This will highlight Monsanto’s approach to identifying competitive synergies and opportunities for collaboration.
Register now to attend the webinar.
Time: Tuesday, June 21, 1pm-2pm EDT (18h-19h Portugal time). Register now.
Hosted by the National Academies Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) and the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP).
This free webinar will review the impetus and findings of a new National Academies report entitled Managing University Intellectual Property in the Public Interest.
Developed by a panel of 18 academic and industry officials over a period of two years, the report makes 15 recommendations for improving the system of university IP management. The recommendations fall into the following broad categories:
- Mission and Principles
- Involvement of Stakeholders
- Organizational Guidelines and External Resources
- Patenting, Licensing, Material Transfer, and IP Enforcement Practices
- Launching Start-up Enterprises
- Relations with Private Research Sponsors
- Institution-Level Evaluation
- National-Level Evaluation and Accountability
Presenter: Mark S. Wrighton, Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis. Prof. Wrighton is the Chair of the NRC Committee on Management of University Intellectual Property.
Cost: There is NO COST to attend this webinar, but registration is required. Attendance is limited to the first 100 registrants. Register now.
About the Report
Three decades ago the Bayh-Dole Act established a new legal framework for the intellectual property (IP) deriving from government-sponsored research at universities. Experts and practitioners continue to debate whether the system of technology transfer based on the Act’s presumption of university ownership and wide latitude in licensing practices is as effective as it could be and whether the system has unintended side-effects – undermining academic norms of rapid, open communication of research results, a premium on curiosity-driven research, and a reward system based on scholarly merit. On the eve of the Act’s 30th anniversary, the National Research Council (NRC) convened a committee of experts involved in research, university administration, industry, and public policy to review stakeholder experiences, examine research evidence, and recommend improvements in the system where appropriate. Learn more…
Cascais, 10-12 June 2011, for young university students and recent graduates
The partnership between IES and INSEAD is part of our strategy for 2011. Within that partnership and as part of the strategy, IES will promote training courses, taught in Portuguese, for executives of excellence. This is how IES will consolidate its work, share good practices and provide social entrepreneurs within the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) with the necessary knowledge and tools to boost their initiatives and social impact.
The aim with the IES Training Programmes Powered by INSEAD is to enhance INSEAD’s competences in terms of education and training on management so that this business school can develop and provide the best executive training in the world to social entrepreneurs.
IES has access to the cutting edge knowledge promoted at INSEAD’s Social Entrepreneurship Center and, benefitting from that, IES will adapt some of their widely successful programmes to the Portuguese context. Furthermore, IES will produce and include some of CPLP’s successful cases, which will then be shared within INSEAD’s network, showing the world some of the best Portugal has to offer.
These training courses are for social entrepreneurship executives – entrepreneurs, investors, third sector managers or researchers, namely social entrepreneurs with initiatives that have already been implemented or will be soon. These courses will boost projects, through the IES Boot Camp Programme, and improve confidence, competences and the network of entrepreneurs so that they can deal better with the challenges brought about by growth and management, with the International Student Exchange Programme (ISEP).
Registrations are now open for the 1st Boot Camp. To pre-register to any other Programmes, go to our Homepage. For more information, please send us an e-mail to inscricoes@ies.org.pt.
Innography, a global business intelligence company based in Austin, has announced a free service of interest to IP professionals, the “Innography Top 10 Industry Licensing Report of the Week.”
The Report is produced using Innography’s Intellectual Property Business Intelligence (IPBI) application. As Innography describes the process, “information is extracted from public and proprietary data that is automatically correlated and visualized to quickly provide a strategic context for accelerating decision making.” A new report is issued each week focusing on a different industry.
You may visit the Innography.com site to see a sample or register to receive the report.
UTEN’s 2010 Survey of Technology Transfer Offices in Portugal is now available for download [700 Kb PDF].
It is an excerpt from our full 2009-2010 Annual Report, available on the Assessment page.
As reported in the Chronicle for Higher Education, Nov. 30, 2010:
No Hard Bargaining Here: At U. of Glasgow, Licensing Rights to Inventions Are Free
By Goldie Blumenstyk
A Scottish university has come up with an unusual program for commercializing its research at a price companies and others should find very attractive: free.
The new program from the University of Glasgow, Easy Access IP, is designed to help give a competitive edge to British companies, particularly as they increasingly vie for business internationally. With the free licensing, the companies and university will no longer need to spend time and money negotiating over licensing terms. …
Read more:
Visit the Easy Access IP site
The Portuguese Bioindustries Association (APBio) and Biocant are organizing the 5th Annual Meeting of Portuguese Biotechnology Companies – BIOMEET’10, which will take place on December 16, 2010, in Cantanhede, Portugal.
Full details are available at http://www.biomeet.eu/.
From the Biocant announcement:
“Following the success of the four first editions we believe that the organization of a next meeting that demonstrates the growing potential of the Portuguese Biotechnology and promotes strategic national and international business relationships is very important. Especially this year, BIOMEET will be jointly organized with the European Project Sharebiotech, promoted at national level by Biocant, which will gather a number of industry experts, investors and companies in the same place.
APBio aims that BIOMEET’10 is an additional opportunity to gather all the entities involved in the Biotech arena, promoting the networking with speakers from the Industry and Academia, Regulatory Institutions, Venture Capital partners and the Government. The main Biomeet’10 proposal is to share experiences and knowledge with national and international speakers.”
The CMU Portugal PhD program in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship will present a workshop:
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Human Capital
FCEE-Católica, Lisbon
17-18 December 2010
For complete information please download the program: CMU Portugal Entrepreneurship Workshop 2010.
From the Introduction:
“One of the major socio-economic trends since the 1990s is the rise of entrepreneurship as a driver of innovation, competitiveness and economic development. One central aspect in the creation and growth of knowledge-based firms is the role played by the human capital of the entrepreneur. Human capital entails the stock of knowledge and skills that reside within individuals and that can be developed over time. This includes general human capital, which comprises formal education, and previous job-market experience. But it also entails specific human capital, encompassing prior experiences that might be more relevant for an individual to decide on engaging in the development of knowledge-based firms. For instance, entrepreneurial experience, top management experience, or previous work experience in the same sector where the new firm is being started are likely to endow individuals with knowledge and skills that are specific for the tasks required from a knowledge-based entrepreneur.
“The last two decades have seen the emergence of encompassing data sources linking individuals and firms over time. Such data sets are rare and hard to access. These longitudinal datasets can be used to track the evolution of markets and individual firm performance as well as individuals’ professional and entrepreneurial experiences over time, allowing for the examination of their decisions and behavioral patterns in the labor market. Some of these longitudinal datasets match employees, employers, patents and their characteristics over time.
“This workshop aims to present and discuss cutting edge work from leading researchers in the areas of entrepreneurship and innovation focusing on the role played by human capital in the entrepreneurial and innovation processes. Most papers will leverage new longitudinal databases, often in connection with other complementary sources of data.”
Ireland Looks to Academe to Re-Ignite Its Economy
Efforts begun during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ boom years show some promise
by Goldie Blumenstyk, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 19 November 2010
http://chronicle.com/article/Ireland-Looks-to-Academe-to/125447/
Now that the Celtic Tiger of the 1990s has been knocked on its back by the government’s debt burden, and Ireland’s national budget is in crisis, Irish universities are working harder than ever to produce dividends from their research.
Aided by 12 years of government investments, researchers are part of a movement to make Ireland a serious contributor to the world of international science and to shore up the foundation of the country’s “smart economy.”
As Europe considers whether Ireland’s economic situation is precarious enough to require a bailout, the government and the public here — already waiting for returns on those investments — are eager for new companies, new employment opportunities, and new wealth, the faster the better.
The urgency is pervasive, prompting established academics at University College Dublin to huddle weekly in classes with venture capitalists and newly minted Ph.D.’s to strategize about start-ups and chase product-development grants and investors.
Read the complete article.
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