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Technology Transfer at UNC Chapel Hill

Office of Technology Development
The central site for Technology Transfer at UNC-Chapel Hill, contains success stories, information for inventors, and technologies available. Provides a link between those conducting research, the university, and corporations.

Research and Discovery: 1998 Annual Report of Office of Research Services and Office of Technology Development
The most current report available online concerning the topic of technology transfer at UNC-Chapel Hill. Offers a good introduction to linked activities between academic research and the private sector. Details the funding opportunities, revenues generated, and patent information. A more current report may be available directly from the Technology Development Office.

Technology Transfer in the UNC System

Initial Needs Assessment Final Report for the University of North Carolina Technology Development Initiative
Report dated March 2001 details technology transfer research and development at each of the fifteen North Carolina university system schools. A detailed listing for each school includes a summary of technology transfer efforts, recommendations, details of phone interviews and site visits. Provides a statement on technology transfer within North Carolina, as well as providing models from well developed programs for schools considering startup of technology transfer programs.

United States Technology Transfer Data

Association of University Technology Managers
The professional association web site for University employees working in technology transfer related offices nationwide. Contains basic information, success stories, results of surveys dating from 1996, and an online journal.

AUTM Survey Product Stories
Varied accounts of today's commonly used products invented by university researchers.

Office of Technology Transfer
The NIH Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) evaluates, protects, monitors, and manages the NIH invention portfolio to carry out the mandates of the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986. This is largely accomplished through overseeing patent prosecution, negotiating and monitoring licensing agreements, and providing oversight and central policy review of Cooperative Research and Development Agreements.

US Colleges and Universities--Utility Patent Grants
A report on patents for inventions activity at United States colleges and universities since 1969. Statistical summaries are given for the top 100 research and development schools in the United States.

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Publications

Books and Articles

  • Investing In Innovation: Creating a Research and Innovation Policy That Works
    (Electronic access via Net Library, NC Live.)
    Access: UNC-CH campus. For off campus access, first set up a netLibrary account from on campus. Once an account has been created on campus, you may then, go to www.netlibrary.com from on or off campus, select "log in," and type in your user name and password. Also available via most academic, public, and state libraries in North Carolina.
    Printed Copy Available: Davis Library, Call# HC 110.T4 I58 1998
  • Technology Transfer in United States Universities J Evol Econ (2002) 12: 199-232.
    Organizational structure of Technology Transfer offices at twelve U.S. Universities is examined with regard to staffing, funding, and respective technology transfer work.
    Access: UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Students, faculty, and staff with a valid UNC-Chapel Hill 9-digit PID (Person ID)or AHEC users affiliated with UNC-Chapel Hill with an AHEC Digital Library account may access from off-campus. (instructions)
  • Technology and Health Care; September, 1996; 4(3)
    Special issue titled "Symposium in Print" on Biotechnology in Dental Medicine with an Emphasis on Technology Transfer
    Available in bound journals section of HSL.

Journals

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  • MEDLINE via PubMed
    Produced by the U.S. National Library of medicine and with coverage from 1966 to the present, MEDLINE is the premier source for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. Search under the MeSH heading "Technology Transfer."
    Access: UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Students, faculty, and staff with a valid UNC-Chapel Hill 9-digit PID (Person ID)or AHEC users affiliated with UNC-Chapel Hill with an AHEC Digital Library account may access from off-campus. (instructions)

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