This study looks at how STEM oriented faculty at approximately 100 colleges and universities, primarily research universities and medical schools, view their technology transfer office. Faculty evaluate the perceived skills of the tech transfer office in a myriad of areas, including but not limited to skill in communicating with faculty, commercial acumen, advice in filing technology disclosure report, patenting and licensing expertise, provision of incubation space, and many other areas.
The report presents detailed data on exactly who uses the tech transfer office and how often, with detailed data no those that have ever consulted a tech transfer officer. It also defines exactly who thinks that the tech transfer office should be better funded, or not, or better staffed, or not.
Overall, the study gives its readers a highly detailed view of how faculty react to the tech transfer office, that they think it does well, not well, what they want from it in the future, and how and how much their university should support the tech transfer office.
The study is designed to enable tech transfer offices to benchmark their performance with that of their peers. Data in the report is broken out by a range of personal and institutional variables including age, gender, race/ethnicity, work title, tenure status, lifetime grant total receipts as well as university type, total enrollment and public/private status. So, for example, we asked faculty surveyed to grade the overall performance of their tech transfer office, and these grades are broken down by the innumerable variables mentioned above.
Just a few of this 78-page report’s many findings are that:
- 9% of faculty in institutions with more than 40,000 students graded their tech transfer offices with a “D’ or an “F”.
- Tenured faculty gave significantly higher grades to the tech transfer office than did untenured faculty on a tenure track.
- In general, men were happier than women with the tech transfer office.
- A much higher percentage of older than younger faculty supported increased spending on the tech transfer office.
Table of Contents
THE QUESTIONNAIRE
- Characteristics of the sample
SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS
- Faculty Grading of the Efforts of the Tech Transfer Office to Promote University Developed Technologies
- Faculty Opinion on Whether or Not the Tech Transfer Office Has Sufficient Staff
- Faculty Opinion of Whether the University Should Spend More, Less or About the Same on Technology Commercialization
- What Could your University be Doing Better in Technology Commercialization?
- Percentage of Faculty Who Interact with their Office of Tech Transfer or Sponsored Research Office
- View of the Effectiveness of the Tech Transfer or Sponsored Research Office in Advertising to Faculty
- Perceived Ease of Filing a Technology Disclosure Report
- Satisfaction with University-Faculty Revenue Split in Licensing, Patenting and Other Revenues
- Satisfaction with the Commercial Acumen of the Technology Transfer Office
- Satisfaction with the Provision of Incubation Space
- Satisfaction with Arranging Partnerships
- Satisfaction with Preliminary Advice About Commercial Potential of New Technologies
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1.1 How would you grade your university's efforts in promoting technologies developed by faculty?
Table 1.2 How would you grade your university's efforts in promoting technologies developed by faculty? Broken out by enrollment
Table 1.3 How would you grade your university's efforts in promoting technologies developed by faculty? Broken out by age of respondent
Table 1.4 How would you grade your university's efforts in promoting technologies developed by faculty? Broken out by political views
Table 1.5 How would you grade your university's efforts in promoting technologies developed by faculty? Broken out by lifetime receipt of research grants
Table 1.6 How would you grade your university's efforts in promoting technologies developed by faculty? Broken out by tenure status
Table 1.7 How would you grade your university's efforts in promoting technologies developed by faculty? Broken out by gender of respondent
Table 1.8 How would you grade your university's efforts in promoting technologies developed by faculty? Broken out by race or ethnicity
Table 1.9 How would you grade your university's efforts in promoting technologies developed by faculty? Broken out by academic field
Table 2.1 In this area, the university has insufficient staff, enough staff, or too much staff?
Table 2.2 In this area, the university has insufficient staff, enough staff, or too much staff? Broken out by enrollment
Table 2.3 In this area, the university has insufficient staff, enough staff, or too much staff? Broken out by age of respondent
Table 2.4 In this area, the university has insufficient staff, enough staff, or too much staff? Broken out by political views
Table 2.5 In this area, the university has insufficient staff, enough staff, or too much staff? Broken out by lifetime receipt of research grants
Table 2.6 In this area, the university has insufficient staff, enough staff, or too much staff? Broken out by tenure status
Table 2.7 In this area, the university has insufficient staff, enough staff, or too much staff? Broken out by gender of respondent
Table 2.8 In this area, the university has insufficient staff, enough staff, or too much staff? Broken out by race or ethnicity
Table 2.9 In this area, the university has insufficient staff, enough staff, or too much staff? Broken out by academic field
Table 3.1 Should your university spend more, less or about the same on technology transfer and technology commercialization?
Table 3.2 Should your university spend more, less or about the same on technology transfer and technology commercialization? Broken out by enrollment
Table 3.3 Should your university spend more, less or about the same on technology transfer and technology commercialization? Broken out by age of respondent
Table 3.4 Should your university spend more, less or about the same on technology transfer and technology commercialization? Broken out by political views
Table 3.5 Should your university spend more, less or about the same on technology transfer and technology commercialization? Broken out by lifetime receipt of research grants
Table 3.6 Should your university spend more, less or about the same on technology transfer and technology commercialization? Broken out by tenure status
Table 3.7 Should your university spend more, less or about the same on technology transfer and technology commercialization? Broken out by gender of respondent
Table 3.8 Should your university spend more, less or about the same on technology transfer and technology commercialization? Broken out by race or ethnicity
Table 3.9 Should your university spend more, less or about the same on technology transfer and technology commercialization? Broken out by academic field
What could your university do to better to foster licensing, patenting and otherwise profiting from technologies developed by university faculty?
Table 4.1 Have you ever had a discussion with an officer at your university technology transfer or sponsored research office?
Table 4.2 Have you ever had a discussion with an officer at your university technology transfer or sponsored research office? Broken out by enrollment
Table 4.3 Have you ever had a discussion with an officer at your university technology transfer or sponsored research office? Broken out by age of respondent
Table 4.4 Have you ever had a discussion with an officer at your university technology transfer or sponsored research office? Broken out by political views
Table 4.5 Have you ever had a discussion with an officer at your university technology transfer or sponsored research office? Broken out by lifetime receipt of research grants
Table 4.6 Have you ever had a discussion with an officer at your university technology transfer or sponsored research office? Broken out by tenure status
Table 4.7 Have you ever had a discussion with an officer at your university technology transfer or sponsored research office? Broken out by gender of respondent
Table 4.8 Have you ever had a discussion with an officer at your university technology transfer or sponsored research office? Broken out by race or ethnicity
Table 4.9 Have you ever had a discussion with an officer at your university technology transfer or sponsored research office? Broken out by academic field
Table 5.1 How effective is your university technology transfer or sponsored research office in advertising the availability of their services to you?
Table 5.2 How effective is your university technology transfer or sponsored research office in advertising the availability of their services to you? Broken out by enrollment
Table 5.3 How effective is your university technology transfer or sponsored research office in advertising the availability of their services to you? Broken out by age of respondent
Table 5.4 How effective is your university technology transfer or sponsored research office in advertising the availability of their services to you? Broken out by political views
Table 5.5 How effective is your university technology transfer or sponsored research office in advertising the availability of their services to you? Broken out by lifetime receipt of research grants
Table 5.6 How effective is your university technology transfer or sponsored research office in advertising the availability of their services to you? Broken out by tenure status
Table 5.7 How effective is your university technology transfer or sponsored research office in advertising the availability of their services to you? Broken out by gender of respondent
Table 5.8 How effective is your university technology transfer or sponsored research office in advertising the availability of their services to you? Broken out by race or ethnicity
Table 5.9 How effective is your university technology transfer or sponsored research office in advertising the availability of their services to you? Broken out by academic field
Table 6 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office?
Table 6.1.1 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Ease of Filing Technology Transfer Report.
Table 6.1.2 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Ease of Filing Technology Transfer Report. Broken out by enrollment
Table 6.1.3 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Ease of Filing Technology Transfer Report. Broken out by age of respondent
Table 6.1.4 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Ease of Filing Technology Transfer Report. Broken out by political views
Table 6.1.5 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Ease of Filing Technology Transfer Report. Broken out by lifetime receipt of research grants
Table 6.1.6 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Ease of Filing Technology Transfer Report. Broken out by tenure status
Table 6.1.7 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Ease of Filing Technology Transfer Report. Broken out by gender of respondent
Table 6.1.8 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Ease of Filing Technology Transfer Report. Broken out by race or ethnicity
Table 6.1.9 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Ease of Filing Technology Transfer Report. Broken out by academic field
Table 6.2.1 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Financial Terms of Faculty/University Revenue Share for Licensing, Patents, Etc.
Table 6.2.2 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Financial Terms of Faculty/University Revenue Share for Licensing, Patents, Etc. Broken out by enrollment
Table 6.2.3 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Financial Terms of Faculty/University Revenue Share for Licensing, Patents, Etc. Broken out by age of respondent
Table 6.2.4 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Financial Terms of Faculty/University Revenue Share for Licensing, Patents, Etc. Broken out by political views
Table 6.2.5 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Financial Terms of Faculty/University Revenue Share for Licensing, Patents, Etc. Broken out by lifetime receipt of research grants
Table 6.2.6 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Financial Terms of Faculty/University Revenue Share for Licensing, Patents, Etc. Broken out by tenure status
Table 6.2.7 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Financial Terms of Faculty/University Revenue Share for Licensing, Patents, Etc. Broken out by gender of respondent
Table 6.2.8 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Financial Terms of Faculty/University Revenue Share for Licensing, Patents, Etc. Broken out by race or ethnicity
Table 6.2.9 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Financial Terms of Faculty/University Revenue Share for Licensing, Patents, Etc. Broken out by academic field
Table 6.3.1 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Commercial Acumen
Table 6.3.2 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Commercial Acumen Broken out by enrollment
Table 6.3.3 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Commercial Acumen Broken out by age of respondent
Table 6.3.4 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Commercial Acumen Broken out by political views
Table 6.3.5 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Commercial Acumen Broken out by lifetime receipt of research grants
Table 6.3.6 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Commercial Acumen Broken out by tenure status
Table 6.3.7 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Commercial Acumen Broken out by gender of respondent
Table 6.3.8 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Commercial Acumen Broken out by race or ethnicity
Table 6.3.9 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Commercial Acumen Broken out by academic field
Table 6.4.1 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Arranging Partnerships.
Table 6.4.2 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Arranging Partnerships. Broken out by enrollment
Table 6.4.3 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Arranging Partnerships. Broken out by age of respondent
Table 6.4.4 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Arranging Partnerships. Broken out by political views
Table 6.4.5 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Arranging Partnerships. Broken out by lifetime receipt of research grants
Table 6.4.6 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Arranging Partnerships. Broken out by tenure status
Table 6.4.7 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Arranging Partnerships. Broken out by gender of respondent
Table 6.4.8 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Arranging Partnerships. Broken out by race or ethnicity
Table 6.4.9 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Arranging Partnerships. Broken out by academic field
Table 6.5.1 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Providing Services or Incubation Space.
Table 6.5.2 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Providing Services or Incubation Space. Broken out by enrollment
Table 6.5.3 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Providing Services or Incubation Space. Broken out by age of respondent
Table 6.5.4 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Providing Services or Incubation Space. Broken out by political views
Table 6.5.5 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Providing Services or Incubation Space. Broken out by lifetime receipt of research grants
Table 6.5.6 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Providing Services or Incubation Space. Broken out by tenure status
Table 6.5.7 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Providing Services or Incubation Space. Broken out by gender of respondent
Table 6.5.8 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Providing Services or Incubation Space. Broken out by race or ethnicity
Table 6.5.9 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Providing Services or Incubation Space. Broken out by academic field
Table 6.6.1 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Preliminary Advice on Commercial Potential.
Table 6.6.2 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Preliminary Advice on Commercial Potential. Broken out by enrollment
Table 6.6.3 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Preliminary Advice on Commercial Potential. Broken out by age of respondent
Table 6.6.4 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Preliminary Advice on Commercial Potential. Broken out by political views
Table 6.6.5 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Preliminary Advice on Commercial Potential. Broken out by lifetime receipt of research grants
Table 6.6.6 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Preliminary Advice on Commercial Potential. Broken out by tenure status
Table 6.6.7 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Preliminary Advice on Commercial Potential. Broken out by gender of respondent
Table 6.6.8 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Preliminary Advice on Commercial Potential. Broken out by race or ethnicity
Table 6.6.9 How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office? Preliminary Advice on Commercial Potential. Broken out by academic field
THE QUESTIONNAIRE
1. Please answer the following:
A. Name:
B. Institution
C. Title (associate, professor, instructor, etc.)
D. Academic Field
E. Country:
F. Email Address:
2. Which Carnegie Class description best fits your college?
A. Community College
B. BA-Granting Institution
C. Specialized College (i.e., performing arts, seminary, etc.)
D. MA-PHD Granting College
E. Level 1 or Level 2 Research University
3. Your college or university is public or private?
A. Public
B. Private
4. What is the approximate full time equivalent enrollment of your college/university?
5. Which age band best describes you:
A. 30 or Under
B. 31-39
C. 40-49
D. 50-59
E. 60 or over
6. Which phrase best describes your political views
A. Left of Liberal
B. Liberal
C. Middle of the Road
D. Conservative
E. Right of Conservative
7. What amount best approximates your lifetime receipt of research grants
A. Never received a grant
B. Less than $100,000
C. $100,000 to $500,000
D. $500,000 to $2,000,000
E. $2,000,000 to $10,000,000
F. More than $10,000,000
8. You are:
A. Tenured
B. Not tenured but on a tenure track
C. Not tenured and not on a tenure track
9. Which phrase best describes your gender?
A. Female
B. Male
C. Transgender
10. Which phrase best describes your race or ethnicity
A. White or Caucasian
B. Black or African American
C. Hispanic or Latino
D. Asian or Asian American
E. Indigenous
F. Mixed Race
11. Your academic field is best described by which of the following designations
A. Social Sciences
B. Engineering
C. Economics/Finance
D. Medicine
E. Mathematics/Statistics/Computer Science
F. Hard Sciences (Chemistry, Biology, Physics)
G. Allied Health: Nursing, Occupation or Physical Therapy, Nutrition, etc.
H. Earth and Environmental Sciences
I. Architecture
J. Other (please specify
12. How would you grade your university's efforts in promoting technologies developed by faculty?
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. F
F. Don't Really Know Enough to Say
13. In this area, the university has insufficient staff, enough staff, or too much staff?
A. Insufficient Staff
B. About enough staff
C. Too much staff
14. Should your university spend more, less or about the same on technology transfer and technology commercialization?
A. Spend much less
B. Spend less
C. Spend about the same
D. Spend more
E. Spend much more
15. What could your university do to better to foster licensing, patenting and otherwise profiting from technologies developed by university faculty?
16. Have you ever had a discussion with an officer at your university technology transfer or sponsored research office?
A. Yes
B. No
17. How effective is your university technology transfer or sponsored research office in advertising the availability of their services to you?
A. Extremely effective
B. Very effective
C. Somewhat effective
D. Not so effective
E. Not at all effective
18. How satisfied are you with the following services and practices of your technology transfer office?
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS OF THE SURVEY PARTICIPANTS
- University of Cincinnati, Kent State University
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Boston College
- Brigham Young University
- Cal State Univ San Bernardino
- California Northstate University
- California State University, San Bernardino
- Caltech
- Carleton College
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Colgate University
- CU Boulder
- CUNY City College
- Dartmouth College
- DPBH
- Drexel University
- Flathead Valley Community College
- Florida Atlantic University
- Florida State University
- Framingham State University
- Friedman Nutrition School Tufts University
- Graduate Center City Univ. NY
- GVSU
- Harvard University
- Hofstra Medical School
- Icahn School of Medicine
- Jacobi Medical Center
- JHSPH
- Johns Hopkins University
- Johnson & Wales University
- Kent State University, Dept. of Earth Sciences
- KSOM of USC
- Lincoln University
- Loma Linda university
- Louisiana Tech University
- Loyola Marymount University
- LSU Health Sciences Center
- LSUHSC
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Miami Dade College
- Michigan State University
- Middlebury College
- Montefiore Einstein
- Morrison
- NC State University
- Norfolk State University
- Norris Cancer Center
- North Carolina State University
- North Shore Community College
- Ohio State University
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
- Oklahoma State University
- Old Dominion University
- Oregon State University
- OSU
- Penn State University - UP
- Phelps Northwell
- SUNY- University at Buffalo
- Texas Christian University
- Texas State University
- The City College of New York
- The Cooper Union
- The State University of New York at Buffalo
- The University of Cincinnati
- Tidewater Community College
- Tufts University
- Tusculum University
- UAB
- UC Davis
- UC Irvine
- UC Riverside
- UC Santa Barbara
- UCCS
- UCLA
- UCSB
- UMass Med School
- UMBC
- Union College
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- University at Buffalo
- University of Arizona
- University of Arkansas
- University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Central Florida
- University of Cincinnati
- University of Colorado Denver
- University of Florida
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- University of Minnesota
- University of Mississippi
- University of Oregon
- University of Sioux Falls
- University of Southern California
- University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy
- University of Tennessee
- University of Texas at Dallas
- University of Utah
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Utah State University
- UW Milwaukee
- Virginia Tech
- Warner Pacific University
- Weill Cornell Medical College
- West Virginia University
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