TY - JOUR
T1 - Changing the academic culture
T2 - Valuing patents and commercialization toward tenure and career advancement
AU - Sanberg, Paul R.
AU - Gharib, Morteza
AU - Harker, Patrick T.
AU - Kaler, Eric W.
AU - Marchase, Richard B.
AU - Sands, Timothy D.
AU - Arshadi, Nasser
AU - Sarkar, Sudeep
PY - 2014/5/6
Y1 - 2014/5/6
N2 - There is national and international recognition of the importance of innovation, technology transfer, and entrepreneurship for sustained economic revival. With the decline of industrial research laboratories in the United States, research universities are being asked to play a central role in our knowledge-centered economy by the technology transfer of their discoveries, innovations, and inventions. In response to this challenge, innovation ecologies at and around universities are starting to change. However, the change has been slow and limited. The authors believe this can be attributed partially to a lack of change in incentives for the central stakeholder, the faculty member. The authors have taken the position that universities should expand their criteria to treat patents, licensing, and commercialization activity by faculty as an important consideration for merit, tenure, and career advancement, along with publishing, teaching, and service.This position is placed in a historical contextwith a look at the history of tenure in the United States, patents, and licensing at universities, the current status of university tenure and career advancement processes, and models for the future.
AB - There is national and international recognition of the importance of innovation, technology transfer, and entrepreneurship for sustained economic revival. With the decline of industrial research laboratories in the United States, research universities are being asked to play a central role in our knowledge-centered economy by the technology transfer of their discoveries, innovations, and inventions. In response to this challenge, innovation ecologies at and around universities are starting to change. However, the change has been slow and limited. The authors believe this can be attributed partially to a lack of change in incentives for the central stakeholder, the faculty member. The authors have taken the position that universities should expand their criteria to treat patents, licensing, and commercialization activity by faculty as an important consideration for merit, tenure, and career advancement, along with publishing, teaching, and service.This position is placed in a historical contextwith a look at the history of tenure in the United States, patents, and licensing at universities, the current status of university tenure and career advancement processes, and models for the future.
KW - Intellectual property
KW - Private partnerships
KW - Promotion
KW - Start-ups
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U2 - 10.1073/pnas.1404094111
DO - 10.1073/pnas.1404094111
M3 - Review article
C2 - 24778248
AN - SCOPUS:84899831792
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 111
SP - 6542
EP - 6547
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 18
ER -