This document summarizes research conducted by the Baton Rouge Area Chamber (BRAC) on technology transfer and commercialization structures at peer universities. BRAC served on the LSU Commercialization and Technology Transfer Task Force to review LSU's current decentralized structure and make recommendations. The research found that centralized technology transfer through nonprofit foundations was common among peers and associated with better performance. It identified areas where LSU could improve, such as increasing invention disclosures and licenses executed relative to research expenditures.
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BRAC.ORG
Peer Data Review on Technology
Transfer and Commercialization
Presented in draft form to the LSU Commercialization and
Technology Transfer Task Force of The Transition Advisory
Committee
July 11th, 2013
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