From a recent Forbes report : In the 30 years since the U.S. Congress passed the Bayh-Dole Act, which assigned ownership of federally-funded inventions to academic institutions, university inventions have led to 6,000 new businesses, 4,300 new products, and 153 drugs, the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) reports. Even through the Great Recession, [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Creating Entrepreneurs | Innovation America
Posted on September 8th, 2011 | By Tony Armstrong
From writer Lauren de Vore: One secret to success in just about any endeavor is to play to people’s strengths. That’s what Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is doing for technology commercialization through its Entrepreneurs in Readiness program. In carrying out the laboratory’s national security mission, scientists and engineers come up with a wide range of [...]
Altered States: A Perspective on 75 Years of State Income Growth
Posted on September 6th, 2011 | By Tony Armstrong
At the CICEP meeting David Gard (Executive Director) and I attended in Portland Kent Glasscock, former Speaker of the House of Representatives in Kansas and now President of Kansas State’s IURTC, referenced the document below several times in his remarks. He was very persuasive and used this document to back up many of his [...]
Connect with IU: Leadership Development Institute (LDI)
Posted on September 2nd, 2011 | By Bill Stephan
From the Leadership Development Institute at Indiana University website: The Leadership Development Institute (LDI) at the Kelley School of Business was created to help students grow and leverage important leadership behaviors that will increase their effectiveness in getting business results while working with and through others. Its goal is to develop students’ ability to lead [...]
