From Lab to Market : Commercialization of Public Sector Technology

I. The Importance of Public-Sector Technology Commercialization -- The King Solomon Role in Public-Sector Technology Commercialization -- Technology Transfer in a Time of Transition -- Doing Technology Transfer in Federal Laboratories -- Accelerating Technology Development for Economic Competitiveness -- Current Practices, Coming Changes -- The Role of the Researcher -- The Impact of Federal Technology Transfer on the Commercialization Process -- The Impact of the Federal Technology Transfer on the Commercialization Process Conflict of Interest -- II. Participant Roles in Public-Sector Technology Commercialization -- Technology Needs: The Art and Craft of Identifying, Articulating, and Communicating -- Technology Needs: Commercializing It “Backwards” -- Comments on, and Enhancements to, Technology Needs: The Art And Craft of Identifying, Articulating, and Communicating (Louis G. Tornatzkay and Beverly Ostrosiecki) -- The Role of the Firm’s Internal Technical Entrepreneurs in Commercializing Technology from Federal Laboratories -- Comment on The Role of the Firm’s Internal Technical Entrepreneurs in Commercializing Technology From The Federal Laboratories -- The Other Roles of the Inventor in MIT’s Technology Transfer Process -- Guerrilla Technology Transfer: The Role of the Researcher -- Technology Transfer from Federal Labs: The Role of Intermediaries -- III. Mechanisms and Processes -- Creating Commercial Value: The Untapped Federal Resource-Technical Know-How -- Building the Knowledge Asset -- The Commercialization of Public Sector Technology: How to Form, Manage, and Evaluate Effective Strategic Alliances -- Forming Effective Partnerships to Commercialize Public Sector Technology -- Partnerships Are a People Business -- Some Observations on Industry-Laboratory Alliances -- Targeted Technology Commercialization through Value-Added Facilitators -- Comments about The Impact of Federal Technology Transfer on the Commercialization Process -- The Evolution of Technology Transfer at MCC -- IV. Prescriptive Paradigms in Public-Sector Technology Commercialization -- The New Role of the Federal Laboratories -- Managing the Business Knowledge Process -- A Model of Technology Transfer: Using Group Decision Support Systems and Electronic Meetings -- A Proposal for a Framework for Measuring and Evaluating Technology Transfer from the Federal Laboratories to Industry -- A Free Market, Independent Agent Model for Technology Transfer -- Developing Effective Communications with the National Laboratories to Identify Commercial Applications -- Tech Transfer and the Entrepreneurial Team: The Need for Balance -- Defining Value: Translating from the Technical-Ese.