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Message from Donald Siegel, President-Elect
Welcome to the Technology Transfer Society (T2S), a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and sharing best practices in technology transfer from universities and federal laboratories to firms (and vice-versa). The Society sponsors the Journal of Technology Transfer, an international journal devoted to the managerial and policy implications of technology transfer. As President-Elect, it is my privilege to organize the 2004 International T2S Meetings, which will be held in Albany, N.Y. at the Hotel Desmond.
The meetings will begin with a reception on Wednesday evening September 29, 2004 and conclude at lunch time on Friday October 1, 2004. The theme of our meeting is “Emerging Issues in Technology Transfer.” Selected topics include the role of entrepreneurship in technology transfer, evaluation methods and practices (which have always been a hallmark of the society’s agenda), including a special session on the congressionally-mandated evaluation of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, marketing issues, patent donations, and technology transfer at federal labs. We have two distinguished keynote speakers: Professor Thomas Allen, the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and Dr. Russell Bessette, Executive Director of the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR).
The primary sponsors of the 2004 T2S Meetings are the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship, the John Broadbent Entrepreneurship Research Fund, and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (located in nearby Troy, N.Y.). Other sponsors include Kluwer Academic Publishers, which publishes the Journal of Technology Transfer, and the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research. If you have questions about logistics and travel, please contact my assistant, Betty Jean Kaufman (kaufm@rpi.edu or (518) 276-6387). We look forward to seeing you at the T2S Meetings.
Donald Siegel