IN THE NEWS

Carpenter, Siri. “Finding Industry Funding,” Science Magazine, Career Development, March 14, 2008.
For faculty at research intensive universities, external funding is critical to their success. This Science article discusses the benefits, challenges and approaches that faculty can use to garnering industry support. Several UIDP members are quoted in this story.


“Troubled Partnership,” Chemical and Engineering News, 85 (12), pp. 25-28, March 19, 2007.
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This article describes some of the issues facing industry-academic research collaborations, with a focus on the chemical industry. The UIDP, featuring Susan Butts and Robert Killoren, is mentioned in its effort to develop tools for industry-university partnerships.


Grose, Thomas K. “Where the Action Is,” American Society for Engineering Education’s Prism, 16(7), March, 2007.
This article describes how a country’s market affects R&D investment and the importance of intellectual property to large corporations. Merrilea Mayo, the Director of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), is quoted in reference to the role of university technology transfer offices and the interests of companies in university collaborations. GUIRR is the convener of the UIDP.


“The Technology Trap,” Nature, 437(13), October, 2005.
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This article mentions Susan Butts and Robert Killoren and their project initiative called Re-engineering Intellectual Property Rights Agreements in Industry-University Collaborations. The article specifically mentions TurboNegotiator as a tool that emerged from this discussion.







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