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AUTM has established this repository to assemble in one place all of the quantitative surveys of technology transfer metrics that have been conducted by other organizations. The methodologies of these studies may or may not be directly comparable with the methodology used by AUTM, so care should be used in making comparisons with AUTM Survey.
Members who become aware of surveys that are not listed here are urged to send a copy to astevens@bu.edu.
A Special Interest Group (“SIG”) usually meets at the AUTM Annual Meeting to discuss Worldwide Surveys of Technology Transfer.
The collection is divided into Resources, which lnks to general resources in quantitative technology transfer, Comparative Studies, which links to one or two studies which compare these various surveys, Multinational Surveys, which include data from more than one country and Country Specific Surveys.
- Multinational Surveys
- Association of Pacific Rim Universities (“APRU”)
APRU is a Singapore-based organization the common thread amongst whose members is that they all border on the Pacific Ocean. Its membership includes institutions from the West Coast of the US, Chile, Australia, Singapore, Japan, etc. It carries out one Survey, in 2002, which compared the performance of its US members with its non-US members.
- Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals (“ASTP”)
ASTP is a pan-European group that has members from a number of countries. Unlike say the UNICO surveys in the UK, the ASTP survey reports individual institutional data for about half its respondents.
- Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”)
The 2002 OECD Survey was extremely thorough and looked at a number of issues and topics in considerable depth. It contains data on a number of countries (e.g., Italy, The Netherlands, Russia) which have not previously (or subsequently) been surveyed.
- Milken Institute
The Milken survey has data for a number of institutions round the world and collected data on variables beyond the metrics covered in the AUTM Survey.
- Australia
There have been a number of thorough surveys of Australia carried out by Government agencies, which contain individual institutional data.
- Canada
AUTM has included Canadian institutions in its surveys since 1991. Since 2002 Canadian have been presented in separate reports, and Canadian data back to 1991 have been separated out. Stats Canada has carried out a number of independent surveys since 1998.
- Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation
The surveys carried out by Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation have data for Denmark since 2000 when the law was changed to allow universities to own their faculty inventions (Government laboratories had always owned their scientists inventions). The Surveys contain data for individual institutions.
- Switzerland
Surveys for Switzerland were carried out for 2001 and 2002 by a government agency, CEST. They were published in German with one page summaries in French and English. In 2005, SWiTT, an industry association carried out a survey. It is available free to its members.
- UK
UNICO has carried out Surveys of the UK profession since 2001. The reports cost £100 each but their website indicates that they will make them available at no charge to academic institutions. The reports only contain composite data and distribution histograms.
- UNICO/NUBBS 2001 Survey
- UNICO/NUBBS 2002 Survey
- UNICO 2003 Survey
- UNICO 2004 Survey
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