University Technology Transfer - by Tom Hockaday (Hardcover)

About the Book

Tackling a complex topic in clear language, the book reveals the impressive scale of patenting, licensing, and spin-out company creation while demonstrating that university technology transfer is a commercial activity with benefits that go well beyond the opportunity to make money.

Book Synopsis

How do we transfer the brilliance of university research results into new products, services, and medicines to benefit society? University research is creating the technologies of tomorrow in the fields of medicine, engineering, information technology, robotics, and artificial intelligence. These early-stage technologies need investment from existing and new businesses to benefit society. But how do we connect university research outputs with business and investors?

This process, Tom Hockaday explains, is what university technology transfer is all about: identifying, protecting, and marketing university research outputs in order to shift opportunities from the university into business. In this detailed introductory book--a comprehensive overview of and guide to the subject--Hockaday, an internationally recognized technology transfer expert, offers up his insider observations, opinions, and suggestions about university technology transfer. He also explains how to develop, strategically operate, and fund university technology transfer offices while behaving in accordance with the central mission of the university.

Aimed at people who work in or with university technology transfer offices, as well as anyone who wants to learn the basics of what is involved, University Technology Transfer speaks to a global audience. Tackling a complex topic in clear language, the book reveals the impressive scale of patenting, licensing, and spin-out company creation while also demonstrating that university technology transfer is a commercial activity with benefits that go well beyond the opportunity to make money.

Review Quotes

Crisply written, compellingly argued, authoritative . . . [University Technology Transfer] provides extremely useful information to anyone who is involved in creating or developing a TT office . . . It should be required reading for all presidents, vice-chancellors and senior managers of universities that have a TT office and are tempted to interfere in its activities.

--Mark Anderson "IP Draughts"

About the Author

Tom Hockaday, an independent technology transfer consultant, was the managing director of Oxford University Innovation (formerly Isis Innovation), the technology transfer company at the University of Oxford, from 2006 to 2016. He has over thirty years of experience in the field.