Knowledge Translation Mechanisms

•Movement of highly skilled students•Publication of results•Professional interactions•Industry sponsored research•Multi-firm arrangements – U-I cooperative research centres•Personal consulting arrangements•Entrepreneurial activities•Licensing university IP & spin-offs

“All eight mechanisms, often operating in a complementary fashion, offer significant contributions to the economy. The licensing of IP, although not the most important of these mechanisms, is more often discussed, measured, quantified, and debated than all other mechanisms combined.”

Managing University IP in the Public Interest, National Research Council of the National Academies (October 2010)

“All eight mechanisms, often operating in a complementary fashion, offer significant contributions to the economy. The licensing of IP, although not the most important of these mechanisms, is more often discussed, measured, quantified, and debated than all other mechanisms combined.”

Managing University IP in the Public Interest, National Research Council of the National Academies (October 2010)

Research Outputs•Ideas, research findings, software, data, specifications, drawings, documents•Interim and final project reports•Academic publications, presentations and thesis

IP Protection•Patents, copyright, trademark, trade secret •Tangible research materials – data, samples

Attributes of Intellectual Property•Ownership•Rights to use•Control•Economic Return•Attribution•Risk

Research Relationships between the Province of British Columbia and B.C.’s Research Universities, (April 2008)www.researchrelationships.bc.ca

External Factors

• Despite 250% increase in global research funding, FDA approvals of new drugs flat line at just over 20 per year

• Virtual collapse of the venture capital sector• Virtual collapse of the biotech sector

• Innovation conundrum for genomics results in forestry and environmental sectors

UBC Revenues by Technology

Revenue # Tech’s

>$5M 2

>$1M 14

>$0.5M 19

>$200k 48

>100k 77

Total # of Technologies: 2800Total Revenue: $130m

Tech Transfer Transformation

• Uvic IP Office (Industrial Partnerships)• Innovation Office (SFU)• Innovate Calgary (Calgary at large)• Innovation and Partnership Office (UofT)• TEC Edmonton (Edmonton at large)• World Discoveries (Western)

Open Collaboration Tools

• Patent pools, clearinghouses, open source

• UBC experience with Flintbox™, West Coast Licensing Partnership, GreenXchange, Intellectual Ventures, Snowflake

• Questions:• Have they worked?• What is the history of university participation?• What are sustainable financial models?