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Item The Commercialization of New Technologies: the Case of DTM Corp.(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992-10-01) Gibson, David V.; McClure, Paul F.Case study of the successful commercialization of a new rapid prototyping process, Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), developed at The University of Texas at Austin and licensed in 1987-88 to the startup DTM Corp.Item Commercializing Technology Resources for Competitive Advantage(IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 1986-09) Konecci, Eugene B.; Kozmetsky, George; Smilor, Raymond W.; Gill, Michael D. JrMonograph on various aspects of technology commercialization, including sections on technology commercialization and regional economic development; commercializing research and development from U.S. federal laboratories; U.S. international competitiveness; and technology marketing. Appendices present data on U.S. research and development patterns in the public and private sectors, on institutional developments for capital formation and technology commercialization, and on world trade.Item Defining Tech Transfer(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998-06) Association of University Technology ManagersTechnology transfer describes a formal transferring of new discoveries and innovations resulting from scientific research conducted at universities to the commercial sector. This article explores the reason why there has been tremendous growth in technology transfer programs, the benefits and successes of technology transfer, and how technology transfer has impacted universities.Item Does It Matter Where IT Workers are Located?(2007) Echeverri-Carroll, Elsie L.; Ayala, Sofia G.; Kshetramade, Mayuresh; Murthy, PriyankaThe predominant view in the literature is that cities affect labor productivity because spatial proximity facilitates the transfer of ideas which make workers more productive. We also anticipate that information technology, or IT (both equipment and labor), by facilitating human communication and speeding up the flow of ideas and data, also contributes to enhancing the productivity of workers within cities. Thus, workers will be more productive in cities with a large endowment of these two factors of production. The objective of this paper is twofold. First, it describes the spatial character- istics of IT workers in the United States. Second, it tests the hypothesis that in cities with a higher endowment of IT workers wages (a proxy for productivity) would be higher after controlling for the characteristics of individual workers and city-specific characteristics that also affect wages. Using data from the 2000 US Census of Population (5% PUMS), we find evidence of a wage premium, especially for college-educated workers, associated with living in a city that has a large concentration of IT workers. On the basis of our findings, we propose to move the discussion on the future of cities from the effect of IT equipment on face-to-face communication to the impact on cities of losing IT workers.Item Facilitation of Science and Engineering Collaboration and Technology Transfer(1998) Laubach, Stephen E. (Stephen Ernest), 1955-ÂKey to the success of research projects involving collaboration across disciplinary, organizational, and geographic boundaries is the use of appropriate and effective mechanisms to exchange data and analyses among research team members. Where diverse university-based research groups are also sharing data and results with industry and government collaborators and sponsors, timely and appropriate information transfer to these entities is also important to project success. Despite rapid evolution of electronic communication technologies, this data sharing and data analysis sharing function is commonly less successful than many stakeholders desire, and less effective than current technology allows. By taking advantage of a secure, interactive website environment, geoscientists, engineers, and others can communicate and share a variety of information resources effectively and conveniently. This results in closer collaboration, faster progress, lower costs, and more effective technology transfer to the private sector. However, the traditional Internet Web site, Intranet, and Extranet approaches are not solutions to many of the challenges of diverse, collaborative research teams. This report outlines the solution to this challenge developed in our project. The project "Using Microstructure Observations To Qualify Fracture Properties and Improve Reservoir Simulation" involves multidisciplinary studies of natural fractures in hydrocarbon reservoirs by a research team of geologists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin that is dispersed among different buildings and two different campuses. In addition, a collaborating group of industry scientists representing seven companies includes individuals located in different cities (or continents). Successful cooperative research and technology transfer for such a widely distributed group is a serious logistical and organizational challenge.Item IC2 Global Fellows Meeting 2009(IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009-05) Various authorsPresentation slides from the IC² Global Fellows Meeting held at the University of Texas at Austin on May 6-8, 2009. The conference was on the theme "Global Perspectives on Technology Transfer and Commercialization." Presentations summarize the state of technology transfer in the countries and regions represented by IC² Global Fellows, in addition to presentations by IC² Directors on the recent work of their programs.Item Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Levels and Key Factors(International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation (ICTPI), 2000-08) Sung, Tae Kyung; Gibson, David V.Most current literature on knowledge and technology transfer (Appropriability Model, Dissemination Model, and Knowledge Utilization Model), describe the process of transfer in details, but has limitation in terms of their application in contemporary high-tech industries since most studies have not provided plausible explanation on levels and factors affecting transfer of knowledge and/or technology. To overcome these limitations, the four levels of knowledge and technology transfer are suggested: Knowledge and Technology Creation (Level I), Sharing (Level II), Implementation (Level III), and Commercialization (Level IV). Comprehensive literature identifies sixteen variables affecting the process and results of knowledge and tec hnology transfer. The survey results show four key factors in knowledge and technology transfer: Communication, Distance, Equivocality, and Motivation. Communication refers to the degree to which a medium is able to efficiently and accurately conveys task-relevant information and media while distance involves both physical and cultural proximity. Equivocality refers to the degree of concreteness of knowledge and technology to be transferred while motivation involves incentives for and the recognition of the importance of knowledge and technology transfer activities. Further analysis shows that there are four distinctive clusters and they show very contrasting characteristics in terms of four key factors. The careful mapping of the four clusters on the four key factors show very informative knowledge and technology transfer patterns, the Knowledge and Technology Transfer Grid. Finally, actions to increase communication interactivity and motivation, and to reduce cultural distance and equivocality are suggested. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation (ICTPI) in Curitiba, Brazil.Item The Knowledge Seekers: Creating Centers for the Performing Sciences(IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998) Porter, W. ArthurThe author argues that a new type of institution, a "Center for the Performing Sciences," is necessary to efficiently close the gap between research and the application of innovation. Such a center would operate as a public-private partnership, bridging government, industry, and academia. It would be free of some of the competing priorities of academic institutions, serve as a venue for R&D cooperation or "coopetition" among private companies, and ultimately be self-sustaining from a share of the intellectual property it produced. The author's points are illustrated with examples from the Houston Area Research Center (HARC), where he served as President and CEO.Item The Knowledge Seekers: How to Turn Your Community into an Engine for Economic Success(IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001) Porter, W. ArthurThe author argues that a new type of institution, a "Center for the Performing Sciences," is necessary to efficiently close the gap between research and the application of innovation. Such a center would operate as a public-private partnership, bridging government, industry, and academia. It would be free of some of the competing priorities of academic institutions, serve as a venue for R&D cooperation or "coopetition" among private companies, and ultimately be self-sustaining from a share of the intellectual property it produced. The author's points are illustrated with examples from the Houston Area Research Center (HARC), where he served as President and CEO, and subsequent work at the University of Oklahoma. This 2001 edition is a substantial revision and expansion of the 1998 book of the same title.Item The Lab-to-Market Road: Assessing the Texas Advanced Technology Program(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005-12) Jarrett, James E.; Meyer, RobertIn 1987, the state legislature appropriated funds for applied research to diversify the state’s economy through the Texas Advanced Technology Program (ATP). These funds targeted projects to educate the state’s scientists and engineers, create new products and production processes, and contribute to the application of science and technology to state businesses. One component of the ATP – the Technology Development and Transfer (TDT) program begun in 1995 – funded technology development and the transfer of that technology to the private sector in Texas. The Bureau of Business Research reviewed hundreds of ATP/TDT projects in order to determine the long-term economic repercussions.Item Making the Pitch: Examining Dialogue and Revisions in Entrepreneurs’ Pitch Decks(IEEE, 2014-09) Spinuzzi, Clay; Nelson, Scott; Thomson, Keela S.; Lorenzini, Francesca; French, Rosemary A.; Pogue, Gregory; Burback, Sidney D.; Momberger, JoelExamination of how Korean entrepreneurs in an entrepreneurship program revised their slide decks for their presentations ("pitches") in response to professional communication genres representing feedback from potential stakeholders in their target markets. Research questions: As entrepreneurs learn to pitch ideas to unfamiliar markets, how do they revise their slide decks for their pitches when interacting with other professional communication genres that represent the concerns of market stakeholders? Specifically, what changes do entrepreneurs make to the claims, evidence, and complexity of arguments in their pitches? Literature review: The professional communication literature demonstrates that the revision process tends to take place in documentation cycles where documents are set in interaction with each other. Yet such revision processes are not studied in detail in existing studies of entrepreneurial pitches in marketing and technology commercialization. Methodology: In this exploratory qualitative study, researchers textually analyzed 14 sets of five related document genres in the archives of an entrepreneurship program. These genres represented a full cycle of activity: application to the program, initial pitches, initial feedback from program personnel, detailed feedback from representative stakeholders in the target market, and revised pitches. Interviews and surveys of program personnel further contextualize the data. Results and conclusions: Entrepreneurs revised their claims and evidence based on their dialogue with their target market. Some of the entrepreneurs altered their slides to make more complex arguments rebutting stakeholders' concerns. These findings suggest that entrepreneurs engage in dialogue with their target markets, but their engagement tends to be guided by tacit, situated experience rather than through an explicit, systematized approach.Item A New Approach to Innovation & Growth in the Texas Technology Corridor(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006-08) Sekora, Michael C.; Evans, ElizaTexas faces the challenge of maintaining and growing its capacity to innovate at a time when global competitors are aggressively pursuing markets that have generated economic success for Texas companies in the recent past. Thus, the Digital Convergence Initiative (DCI), a university/private/public venture was established to spur innovation, collaboration, and competitiveness in the region among 1600 digital convergence organizations in the Texas Technology Corridor. This article reports on one of DCI's efforts: the deployment of a method for technology strategic planning developed in U.S. intelligence agencies and used by some of the largest and most successful U.S. corporations but never before deployed in the service of regional economic development.Item Remaking the Pitch: Reuse Strategies in Entrepreneurs' Pitch Decks(IEEE, 2015-03) Spinuzzi, Clay; Nelson, Scott; Thomson, Keela S.; Lorenzini, Francesca; French, Rosemary A.; Pogue, Gregory; Burback, Sidney D.; Momberger, JoelExamination of how Korean entrepreneurs in an entrepreneurship program revised their English-language slide decks for their competitive presentations (“pitches”) by reusing content from professional communication genres, including their own documents and feedback from potential stakeholders in their target markets. Research question: As entrepreneurs learn to pitch ideas to unfamiliar markets, how do they revise their slide decks by reusing content from other professional communication genres? Specifically, what strategies do they follow when reusing content? Literature review: The professional communication literature demonstrates that reuse tends to take place in documentation cycles where documents are set in interaction with each other and that reuse itself involves rhetorical choices. Yet such reuse strategies have not been examined in existing studies of entrepreneurial pitches in marketing and technology commercialization. Methodology: In an exploratory qualitative study, researchers textually analyzed 14 sets of five related document genres in the archives of an entrepreneurship program. These genres represented a full cycle of activity: application to the program, initial pitches, initial feedback from program personnel, detailed feedback from representative stakeholders in the target market, and revised pitches. Interviews and surveys of program personnel further contextualize the data. Results and conclusions: Entrepreneurs reused content from professional communication genres, including those that they had generated as well as those generated by market stakeholders. However, reuse went simply beyond accepting and copying feedback; as they learned to make their pitch arguments, these entrepreneurs had to weigh this feedback and engage with it critically. This reuse can be characterized as Accepting (repeating verbatim or in close paraphrase); Continuing (extending lines of argument); and Resisting (rebutting lines of argument). These findings suggest that entrepreneurs need all three strategies as they refine their pitches for their target markets.Item Targeting reserve growth opportunities in the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin: transferring secondary gas recovery technology to the offshore environment - book 2(2000) DeAngelo, M. V.; Hentz, Tucker F.; Wood, Lesli J.; Zeng, HongliuThe Bureau of Economic Geology's (BEG) Offshore Secondary Gas Recovery is a multi-fiscal-year project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, whose goal is to research new techniques for defining the structure, stratigraphy, and hydrocarbons in a mature area in the northern Gulf of Mexico and to utilize those multidisciplinary methods to identify additional gas resources, as well as predict regional trends in hydrocarbon accumulation. Phases 1 and 2 of the project work plan (Project Preparation and Data Gathering and Loading, respectively) are completed. Phase 3 of the plan (Data Analysis) is 65 percent completed, with all third- and fourth-order key surfaces mapped in the log data. Sixty fourth-order and twelve third-order sequences have been defined using well data, and key flooding surfaces have been mapped in the seismic volume. Structural mapping of 13 key horizons is completed and provides a structural framework within which to look at production and reservoir development. The sequence framework is complete within and immediately between the two fields and provides a basis for examining hydrocarbon occurrence and distribution. Structural slices of the seismic amplitude data volume have been completed at 4-ms intervals through the data, providing detailed maps of amplitude anomalies associated with quality reservoirs. The process of transforming the seismic attribute volume into a three-dimensional petrophysical volume is progressing, and the addition of an engineer in FY 2001 will initiate development of a fourth-order-level reservoir-flow model within a carefully chosen subset of the data volume.Item Targeting reserve growth opportunities in the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin: transferring secondary gas recovery technology to the offshore environment Book 1(1999) Hentz, Tucker F.; Zeng, Hongliu; Wood, Lesli J.; Kilic, Cem O.; Yeh, Joseph S.; Skolnakorn, J.; DeAngelo, M. V.The Bureau of Economic Geology's Offshore Secondary Gas Recovery project is a multi-fiscal-year project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, whose goal is to identify additional natural gas resources in a major field in the northern Gulf of Mexico Basin through multidisciplinary field and reservoir characterization study. Phases 1 and 2 of the project work plan (Project Preparation and Data Gathering and Loading, respectively) are nearly complete and scheduled to be completed by the end of October 1999. Phase 3 of the plan (Data Analysis) is well underway, and a list of preliminary leads is currently being compiled to convey to our industry partner. Reservoir tops have been spotted to facilitate production evaluation and recompletion opportunity. Key regional sequence surfaces have been identified in well logs and seismic, and mapping is being completed in the seismic dataset. Some of these surfaces have provided horizons to initiate a continuity processing of the seismic data volume for mapping depositional architecture. Well log interpretation of stacking patterns and systems tracts is well underway. Correlation surfaces have been compiled, and cross sections have been generated and interpreted for depositional elements. These data are being integrated with seismic data via Landmark® software. The project is on track within its projected timeframe, and additional personnel are being added as per the technical analysis plan. The key objective in the next fiscal year is to do the bulk of the technical analysis, focusing on generating a prioritized portfolio of infill and exploration prospects. Direct hydrocarbon indicator (DHI) modeling and analysis, continuity and impedance analysis, a general attribute interpretation of the seismic data, continued log-facies and parasequence interpretation, fault-seal analysis, and rigorous petrophysical analysis of well data are critical components of this objective.Item Technology Transfer: A Report on Project Development(Center for Research on Communication Technology & Society, The University of Texas at Austin, 1988-11) Williams, Frederick; Gibson, David V.; Sawhney, Harmeet S.The purpose of this document is to describe and to propose research into the process of technology transfer between universities and industry. When examined as a process, technology transfer refers to the effective exchange of technical information among scientists and engineers as individuals, groups, or representatives of institutions or companies. In high tech, R&D technology transfer is more often the exchange of ideas, research findings, or critical information than simply a product transfer. In university-industry cooperation, technology transfer is a two-way or interactive communication process. In studying this process, we seek to identify the factors, circumstances, and actions that facilitate or impede this transfer. We especially seek generalizations that increase our basic understanding and that can be tested in alternative environments and situations.Item Texas Business Review, June 1998(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998-06) Association of University Technology Managers; Bratic, Walter; McLane, PatrickItem A Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach to Improve Regional Innovation Ecosystems in Portugal(Brazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management, 2016-03) Resende, David N.; Bravo, MarcoThis article presents the University Technology Enterprise Network (UTEN), a successful program that built a national innovation network in Portugal based in the university technology transfer offices (TTOs), incubators and science parks. UTEN, which was launched in March 2007, includes 15 Portuguese universities and select international partners in a 5-year program funded by the Portuguese government. The main objective has been to accelerate the development of a sustainable, globally competitive, professional technology transfer and commercialization network within Portugal to increase Portugal’s international competitiveness in university–based science, and technology transfer and commercialization.