Commercialising University Research

This paper describes the strategies and tactics that Oxford University has developed over a ten-year period to address the conflicting demands of the traditional university responsibilities of teaching and research, with the so-called third stream needs of more direct economic development. The approach has been based on a clear policy definition of the ownership of Intellectual Property Rights, and the allocation of university resources to encourage, and support researchers in protect-ing and commercialising inventions. The result has been a marked increase in disclosures and successful commercial development, through licences, consultancy and spinout companies, generating returns to the researchers, uni-versity and regional economy. The increasing tide of publications reporting threats to academic freedom from commercialisa-tion and the generation of liabilities and any number of other dangers to universities, have led us to investigate the possibility of balancing the apparently conflicting objectives of maintaining a vibrant, curiosity-led research university whilst at the same time increasing its contribution to

Academic freedom · Business · Curiosity · Higher education · Intellectual property · Political science · Public relations · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law

• Voodoo Institution or Entrepreneurial University? Spin-off Companies, the Entrepreneurial System and Regional Development in the UK

  Richard Harrison, Claire Leitch•Regional Studies•2009

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