Emerging Issues in Technology Transfer

Technology Transfer Society (T2S) 26th Annual Conference Program

September 29-October 1, 2004

Desmond Hotel, Albany, NY

(Click on Session Theme to See Individual Papers Within That Session)

 

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

7:00 – 8:30pm              Opening Buffet Dinner/Reception

                                    Pre-Conference Registration

 

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

7:30 – 12:00 noon        Registration

 

7:30 – 8:30                   Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 8:35                   Welcoming Address and Introduction to the Workshop:

                                    Professor Donald Siegel, President-Elect, T2S, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

8:35 – 9:15                   Plenary Session-Keynote Speaker:

                                    Professor Thomas J. Allen, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT

 

9:30 – 11:00                 Concurrent Sessions

 

Theme: “Trends in Government, University, and Industry Technology Transfer”

Chair: Dr. Sally Rood, Private Consultant and Adjunct Professor,

            Virginia Tech University (former President of T2S)

 

                                    Theme: “The Creation of Start-up Firms at Public Research Institutions-Part I”

                                    Chair: Professor Mike Wright, University of Nottingham

 

                                    Theme: “The Creation of Start-up Firms at Public Research Institutions-Part II”

                                    Chair: Dr. Andy Lockett, University of Nottingham

 

11:00 –11:15                Break

 

11:15 – 12:45               Concurrent Sessions

 

                                    Theme:  Evaluating the Small Business Innovation Research Program”

                                    Chair: Dr. Charles Wessner, National Academy of Sciences

 

                                    Theme: “The Creation of Start-up Firms at Public Research Institutions-Part III”

                                    Chair: Professor Michael Ensley, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

                                    Theme: “The Creation of Start-up Firms at Public Research Institutions-Part IV”

                                    Chair: Professor Donald Siegel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

1:00 – 2:15                   Luncheon-Keynote Speaker:

                                    Dr. Russell Bessette, Executive Director, New York State Office of Science,

                                                                     Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR)

 

 

2:15 – 3:45                   Concurrent Sessions:

 

                                    Theme: “Transportation Technology Transfer: Transcending Boundaries and

Maximizing Opportunities”

Chair: Dr. O. A. Elrahman, New York State Department of Transportation,

                                                 R&D Bureau

 

                                    Theme: “Empirical Evidence on Knowledge Flows from Research

                                                    Collaborations-Part I”

                                    Chair: Professor Isaac Ehrlich, University at Buffalo

 

                                    Theme: “Empirical Evidence on Knowledge Flows from Research

                                                    Collaborations-Part II”

                                    Chair: Professor David Audretsch, Indiana University and Max Planck Institute

  

 

3:45 – 4:00                   Break

 

4:00 – 6:00                   Concurrent Sessions:

 

                                    Theme: “Technology Transfer: Finding the Customer”

                                    Chair: Dr. Phyl Speser, Foresight Science & Technology Incorporated

 

Theme: “University-Based Technology Initiatives”

Chair: Professor Albert Link, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 

 

ADJOURN

 

Friday, October 1, 2004:       

 

9:00 – 10:30                 Concurrent Sessions

 

                                    Theme: “Technology Transfer at NSF Centers: Strategies Employed by

                                                   ERC and STC Technology Transfer Agents”

                                    Chair: Professor Barry Bozeman, Georgia Tech University

 

                                    Theme: “Models of Technology Transfer”

                                    Chair: Sue Patow, University of Minnesota (former President of T2S)

 

                                    Theme: “Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technology Transfer”

                                    Chair: Professor Denis Gray, North Carolina State University

 

                                    Special Meeting of Research Team Evaluating the SBIR Program

                                    (open to the public-will meet from 9:30 to 12:30)

                                    Chair: Dr. Charles Wessner, National Academy of Sciences

 

10:30 – 11:00               Break

 

11:00 – 12:30               Concurrent Sessions

 

                                    Theme: “University Technology Transfer

                                    Chair: Professor Jorge Niosi, University of Quebec at Montreal

 

Theme: “University Technology Transfer: Legal and Managerial Issues”

Chair: Jerry McGuire, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 

                                    Theme: “Emerging Issues in Technology Transfer

                                    Chair: Professor Elias G. Carayannis, George Washington University 

 

12:30 – 2:00                 T2S Board Meeting