Workshop: Organizational Issues in Technology Transfer at Federal Laboratories; November 13-15, 2017, Phoenix, Arizona

研讨会：联邦实验室技术转让的组织问题；

• 批准号: 1744588
• 负责人: David Waldman
• 金额: $ 3.5万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744588&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Organizational; Issues; Technology; Transfer

The purpose of this project is to host a workshop that will advance the technology transfer mission of federal laboratories, which constitute an important component of the U.S. national innovation system. In 1980, Congress enacted two landmark pieces of legislation, with strong bipartisan support, to facilitate technology transfer from universities and federal laboratories to the private sector. The first was the Bayh-Dole Act, which applied mainly to universities. The second was the Stevenson-Wydler Act, which applied to federal labs. This was followed by two additional pieces of legislation that were also designed to facilitate the commercialization of research at federal labs, the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 and the Technology Transfer Commercialization Act of 2000. Bayh-Dole unleashed a substantial rise in university technology transfer, which has been studied intensively by academics. Unfortunately, much less is known about technology transfer at federal labs. It also appears that technology transfer outcomes at federal labs have lagged behind those achieved by universities. Also, managers at federal labs have few analytical tools and little existing research to help them manage technology transfer effectively. This workshop will fill this gap by developing a research agenda that will be useful to scholars, lab managers, and policy makers. The workshop will specifically address organizational issues, which have been shown to affect university technology transfer performance, including the propensity of academic scientists and engineers to engage in technology transfer. These include macro or institutional factors, such as strategy, structure, organizational culture, and inter-organizational relations. Organizational issues also include micro or individual-level factors, such as whether scientists perceive that they are being treated fairly in the workplace, incentives for faculty engagement in technology transfer, and struggles that scientists have with their new role as academic entrepreneurs. These types of issues, as well as others, are also likely to be relevant to federal labs. By considering both micro- and macro-level issues, the workshop will be highly interdisciplinary in nature. The workshop will convene: (1) leading academic experts on organizational issues in management, psychology, strategy, sociology, public policy, and economics; (2) the relatively few academics who have conducted research on technology transfer at federal labs; (3) editors of top journals in innovation and management studies and other thought leaders in management, sociology, and public policy; (4) doctoral students from leading schools of public policy and management, and (5) managers of major federal labs and the federal agencies that sponsor them. A key goal of the workshop will be to develop a research agenda that will simultaneously advance academic research on organizational issues in technology transfer, while at the same time, identifying tools and tactics to enable managers of federal labs to advance their technology transfer mission and fulfill the spirit of Stevenson-Wydler and other legislation that is designed to stimulate the commercialization of research at federal labs.

该项目的目的是举办一个研讨会，以推进联邦实验室的技术转让使命，联邦实验室是美国国家创新体系的重要组成部分。 1980 年，国会在两党的大力支持下颁布了两项具有里程碑意义的立法，以促进大学和联邦实验室向私营部门的技术转让。第一个是《拜杜法案》，主要适用于大学。第二个是《史蒂文森-威德勒法案》，适用于联邦实验室。随后又出台了另外两项立法，即《1986 年联邦技术转让法案》和《2000 年技术转让商业化法案》，这两项法案也旨在促进联邦实验室研究的商业化。拜杜大学推动了大学技术转让的大幅增长，已被学者们深入研究。不幸的是，人们对联邦实验室的技术转让知之甚少。联邦实验室的技术转让成果似乎也落后于大学。此外，联邦实验室的管理人员几乎没有分析工具和现有研究来帮助他们有效管理技术转让。本次研讨会将通过制定对学者、实验室管理者和政策制定者有用的研究议程来填补这一空白。该研讨会将专门讨论组织问题，这些问题已被证明会影响大学技术转让绩效，包括学术科学家和工程师参与技术转让的倾向。这些包括宏观或制度因素，例如战略、结构、组织文化和组织间关系。组织问题还包括微观或个人层面的因素，例如科学家是否认为自己在工作场所受到公平对待、教师参与技术转让的激励措施以及科学家在作为学术企业家的新角色中遇到的困难。这些类型的问题以及其他问题也可能与联邦实验室有关。通过考虑微观和宏观层面的问题，研讨会本质上将是高度跨学科的。研讨会将召集：（1）管理学、心理学、战略、社会学、公共政策和经济学领域组织问题的顶尖学术专家； (2) 在联邦实验室进行技术转让研究的学者相对较少； (3) 创新和管理研究领域顶级期刊的编辑以及管理学、社会学和公共政策领域的其他思想领袖； (4) 来自顶尖公共政策和管理学院的博士生，以及 (5) 主要联邦实验室和赞助这些实验室的联邦机构的管理人员。研讨会的一个关键目标是制定一项研究议程，同时推进对技术转让组织问题的学术研究，同时确定工具和策略，使联邦实验室的管理人员能够推进其技术转让使命并实现史蒂文森-威德勒和其他旨在刺激联邦实验室研究商业化的立法的精神。