This post comes from Prof Karen Hersey's Building Networks: The National and International Experiences of AUTM In Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices.
Prof Karen Hersey is Professor of Law at the Pierce Law and a past President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). She is a former Senior Counsel for intellectual property at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1992, she served as the academic community's representative to a congressionally mandated Department of Defense Government-Industry Advisory Committee on Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software to study and recommend changes in the Department of Defense Procurement Regulations in the areas of technical data and computer software.
She publishes widely in the area of intellectual property law as it impacts institutions of higher education. In addition to offering courses dealing with technology transfer for nonprofit organizations and intellectual property management in universities, she is also the co founder of the International Technology Transfer Institute at Pierce Law.
The following is an
abstract of "Building Networks: The National and International Experiences of AUTM"
Developing and
implementing best practices in intellectual property (IP) management requires
several critical inputs, and building networks is among the most important. The
experience of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) serves
as an excellent example of how to build and maintain such networks. The
important lessons learned as AUTM grew and expanded its networks are broadly
applicable to building dynamic, productive, and sustainable networks anywhere
in the world. Furthermore, since AUTM is an association of individual, rather
than institutional or organizational members, it functions all the more as a
catalyst for networking. Networking provides two important benefits. First, it
facilitates relationships between individuals with varied experience,
expertise, and skill sets, encouraging individuals to contribute to each
other's professional expertise. Second, the network itself contributes to the
overall quality of group performance. Working through networks, practitioners
exchange ideas and experiences to form best practices that become performance
standards for individuals and their institutions. Networks thereby contribute
to building IP management capacity at both the individual and institutional
levels, and this capacity building then feeds back to further support and
expand the network. This chapter considers the networking practices established
by AUTM. It charts the organization's growth over a period of 30 years from a
small group of
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The same can be cited as:
Hersey K. 2007. Building Networks: The National and
International Experiences of AUTM. In Intellectual Property Management in
Health and Agricultural Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices (eds. A
Krattiger, RT Mahoney, L Nelsen, et al.). MIHR:
