Industry committee  Good morning. Thank you to the members of this committee for the invitation to speak today. I wish I could be with you in person. My name is Steve Susalka, and I'm the chief executive officer of the Association of University Technology Managers, also known as AUTM. AUTM is a

Industry committee  Thank you for the question [Technical difficulty—Editor].

Industry committee  Sorry about that. The quick answer is that we do not collect that type of [Technical difficulty—Editor] investment in Canadian technology transfer. I will point out one thing. Just to echo your comment earlier about industry funding, I'll say that one of the real advantages of

Industry committee  There are a number of initiatives that [Technical difficulty—Editor] is pursuing.

Industry committee  I'm sorry about that. I was going to mention that one of the initiatives that's being pursued by more and more universities in the United States is prototype development, and further development of intellectual property at an institution level. This is an area which I think Cana

Industry committee  Sorry. By developing a prototype, you are providing a better resource for a licensee, whether it's that venture capitalist who might fund a new company, or perhaps a company that might be interested in licensing that intellectual property. That's an area where I think, again, Ca

Industry committee  Sure. There are two points I want to make on the Bayh-Dole Act. Number one, as it relates to your question, if an invention is funded by the federal government in whole or in part, it is required to report that invention to the federal government. Just to be clear, that would n

Industry committee  Predominantly that database is used for the federal government to keep track of the inventions that are supported using federal funds. It's not exactly designed for this market pull piece. It is different. AUTM has done certain things to help accelerate that connection [Technic

Industry committee  Out of other countries—

Industry committee  Nothing comes to mind that way, although I can look at the reciprocal. You may be familiar with the SBIR, small business innovation research program, or the STTR, small business technology transfer program, that are designed to support and grow research and development in small U

Industry committee  Academic technology transfer does involve technology and licensing, but it also relates to knowledge transfer.

Industry committee  The tacit knowledge is a little trickier. Of course you have knowledge that's being transferred by, say, a university student who then goes to work for a Canadian company, so you have that transfer of knowledge. You have transfer of knowledge just through publications, which migh

Industry committee  It really is on an institution-by-institution basis. There's no particular requirement for that approach, but you're right that knowledge transfer does occur by way of, say, consulting. Many universities have a one-day-a-week consulting policy whereby the inventor might work with

Industry committee  There are a number of factors in play. I mentioned a couple in terms of the percentage difference. I would have to see exactly the calculations they use, but aspects that might influence this would be the number of inventions and patent applications that are developed and start

Industry committee  WIPO is a wonderful resource for academic technology transfer organizations, allowing a single patent application in the home language to be filed and retain rights in, as you mentioned, over 180 countries worldwide. That has been a great accelerator of protecting intellectual pr