Most tech transfer offices are not profitable

Do a study of the most valuable IP, the research that led to it, the people that did it, and see if you can pattern match against that

# Does more valuable research actually happen on the coasts or are there just better commercialization mechanisms there?

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Any technology that comes out of a university needs to go through their tech transfer office

Meta-Tech Transfer Office

Innovation requires multiple people

Technology transfer is a mystifying abstraction

# Most tech transfer offices are not profitable
The exceptions are your usual suspects - MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley.
[[Does more valuable research actually happen on the coasts or are there just better commercialization mechanisms there?]]

Some explanations for this:
-  [[Coastal schools have a deep market around commercializing technology]] 
- [[The reason you see so much commercialization coming out of coastal universities is because they have a flywheel of lower transaction costs]]

See [[Katie Saund Email 20/2/2019]] - `(a) at the global TT summit earlier this year, only 2 of the top 30 TT professionals at the meeting said generating revenue was a goal of the TT office but 30/30 said economic development was a goal and (b) I talked with the director at NC State’s TT office which is entirely self funded — they keep all IP revenue. They seem to have just enough money for staff and overhead, but not enough for innovative programs because they needed to get grant funding for those in the last couple years. This is just crazy to me— that’s so little revenue coming into the university! `

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Does more valuable research actually happen on the coasts or are there just better commercialization mechanisms there?

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