Podcast: Dave Allen, Tech Transfer Office

W3W3 radio talked with David Allen, Associate Vice President for Technology Transfer at the University of Colorado, to get caught up on federal public policy related to university technology transfer:

Overall, we are finally seeing some attention being given to university tech transfer at the federal level. The biggest shift is a realization that the transfer of research from the lab to a company doesn’t occur through checking boxes or filling out forms, happenstance or luck, rather the work of technology transfer is complex and involves many aspects beyond the university. You just can’t take a complex asset and apply simple (non complex) solutions or you’ll sub-optimize the system objectives, which is our case is commercialization.

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