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Title: Technology Transfer for Entrepreneurs : A Guide to Commercializing Federal Laboratory Innovations by Clifford M. Gross, Joseph P. Allen ISBN: 0-275-98083-9 Publisher: Praeger Publishers Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for Entrepreneurs
Comment: The book, despite the other reviewer's comments, is excellent for its purpose: to provide a roadmap for the entrepreneur to find and commercialize technology from federal labs. The Baye-Dole Act and its companion, the Stevenson-Wydler Act, are extremely important to technology transfer. Their legislative history is currently playing a large role in the debate over government rights over Abbott Labs Norvir drug. Understanding the legislative intent and purpose of the act will provide greater clarity to the entrepreneur as to what he can do with government created technology.
The book provides the tools necessary to find and license technology without useless surfing on the web.
Rating: 2
Summary: Superficial, at best...
Comment: If you already know that the Federal government sponsors R&D, that Federal labs often collaborate with private companies and individuals, and that there are laws that govern these activities, this book is not likely to be of much value to you.
Of the book's 252 pages, 101 are verbatim recitations of public law that can easily be retrieved from the FirstGov web site. Another 25 pages contain cursory descriptions of various Federal labs that look as if they were captured directly from the home pages of the labs' web sites. Much of this information is too general, out of date, or both. For example, R&D funding information is presented at the Agency level (e.g., DOD, NASA, DOE), rather than the lab level, and, despite the book's 2003 publication date, the budget numbers are from FY98 (as I write this, the FY05 budget is being debated).
In a chapter entitled "Property Rights and Their Imperative" the authors provide an exhaustive, but essentially useless, exposition on the historical precursors of the various laws affecting current Federal R&D practices (do we really care that in the mid-80's "...Senator Dole became increasingly frustrated with continued bureaucratic resistance to Bayh-Dole..."?).
Other chapters provide freshman-level overviews of nano-technology, patent law, and, oddly enough, bibliometrics.
In sum, you can probably find more current and useful information in 15 minutes surfing the web.
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