Academic Studies
Blog entry #1 (11/11/09)
By Claire Driscoll (NHGRI, NIH) and Pat Anderson Cotton (University of California)
Our goal is to use this blog to share information about some of the new initiatives being developed and implemented by AUTM to more effectively reach out to technology transfer research scholars. Our profession has now been around long enough to attract a growing body of dedicated researchers who actually study what we do! Ironically many of us who “work in the trenches” do not have the time to read or incorporate findings from scholarly articles and published analyses despite the fact that doing so would likely help us to better manage our institutions’ technology transfer operations. Over the past year or so members of the annual meeting program and scholar interaction committees have been working hard to increase the breath and depth of academic studies content presented both in AUTM publications and at AUTM events in an attempt to bridge this divide between the practitioner and theorist/academician communities.
Overview of Academic Studies-related events at the 2010 Annual Meeting The AUTM 2010 Annual Meeting has a dedicated academic studies track and a stand-alone academic poster session. One of the academic studies sessions will feature presentations by the winners of the AUTM Graduate Student Literature Review Prize. The academic studies session track at the upcoming Annual Meeting in New Orleans is aimed at fostering the dissemination, within the wider practitioner community, of technology transfer-related study results and/or interesting case study reports produced by academic researchers. AUTM is running 5 academic studies sessions at the 2010 New Orleans conference and the conference will also feature a new special interest group (SIG) devoted to academic studies. In addition to featuring the new SIG and academic studies sessions there will be an academic poster session at the conference. Finally we plan to have reserved “academic studies” tables at one or more of the lunches so that individuals interested in networking with academic study session speakers, scholar interaction committee members and academic poster presenters can more easily network with one another. This will be the first time that there will be such a rich and diverse array of content for academic tech transfer scholars/non-technology transfer practitioners at an AUTM Annual Meeting.
2010 Annual Meeting Academic Poster session information
Last year was the first year AUTM ran an academic poster session and we received a lot of positive feedback from both the participants and from attendees (foot traffic in the poster area was very high). If you are interested in submitting a poster proposal please keep in the mind that Academic Poster Session forms are due by Nov. 13. The Academic Poster Sessions will run concurrently with the Exhibit Hall on Thursday, March 18 and Friday, March 19, 2010. This poster session is designed to provide an opportunity for those who have completed a research investigation of a technology transfer-related issue and/or have prepared specific case studies to present their findings. To learn more about the Academic Poster Sessions visit the AUTM Web site
http://www.autm.net/Academic_Posters.htm.
We hope to see you in New Orleans!
Claire and Pat