The Technology Transfer Blog

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Female academics & the patent gap; the FT praises Imperial Innovations

'While running an analysis of academics' links with industry, two economists noticed something odd in their database of commercially well-connected scientists. Women were seriously underrepresented — even taking their minority status in academia into account....' here

'Imperial College London, one of Europe's leading research universities, has rejected the IP Group model, arguing that it dilutes the university's stake in its own IP....' here