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University Start-ups and Licensing Activity Held Steady During Recession

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- On Monday, the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) announced the results of a survey showing that university start-ups and licensing activity remaining strong even at the height of the country's worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The AUTM survey found that 596 university start-ups were created in 2009, a number that was close to the 2008 tally. While the survey also found that licensing revenue declined 32.5% in 2009, AUTM attributed this drop to the fact that universities had negotiated extraordinary partial royalty buyouts that significantly boosted overall royalties in 2007 and 2008, which...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on October 08, 2010 (boomark / email).