Performance
Improvement, Efficiency, and Staffing Strategies
Table of
Contents
- Incentives
pose tricky challenges but may bring TTOs big rewards
- Incentive
pay for TTO staff: plusses and minuses
- Universities
slowly turning to incentive compensation for tech transfer staff
- Staff
turnover won’t disappear, but savvy recruitment and retention strategies
can help
- UT
Dallas opens new office, shifts focus from ‘gatekeeper’ to ‘facilitator’
- ‘Realignment’
is key to U of Utah’s stellar start-up performance
- Firm
eschews “volume” approach to tech transfer, focuses on high-potential
IP
- ‘Click-through’
license agreements can pave way to bigger deals
- How
two small TTOs took different paths to building toward big results
- TTOs
mix and match systems to enhance their IT capabilities
- Moving
TTO into foundation structure opens new opportunities
- New
tech transfer model uses market pull approach to speed commercialization
- ‘CEOs
in waiting’ offer entrepreneurial advice for TTO’s start-ups
- Use
these strategies to contain patent prosecution costs
- Streamlined
processes, swift negotiations turn Rutgers TTO into a profit center
- Tech
transfer managers develop tactics to improve MTA process
- Use
process mapping to improve your TTO’s performance
- ‘Supercluster’
approach may speed time to market
- University
of Toronto devises innovative hybrid TTO staffing model
- Community
outreach, advisory board spur UWash tech transfer office rebound
- Web-based
customer service survey garners feedback for TTO
- UIC
conducts stakeholder survey as part of performance measurement
- U
of Akron beats out larger schools in rate of return
- Columbia
Fellows program supports tech transfer efforts
- Active
management of licenses keeps big dollars from slipping away
- Post-deal
diligence: How to deal with violations of contract terms
- Tech
transfer triage yields boost in disclosures, licensing income, and cost savings
- Internship
program rescues TTO, yields ongoing rewards
- Save
money with MBA students as analysts, start-up managers