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If you work in technology transfer, or would like to, the easiest way to find a new position is to work with a recruiter who specializes in placements in this …
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Tech transfer is an incredibly exciting area. Nowhere else can you be as directly involved in affecting the future of our world in so many different ways. Sure, researchers and scientists …
If you’re in tech transfer and feel it’s time for a change in your employer, don’t begin with a Google search of open jobs. If you do, you may find …
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All this talk about the millennials needing meaningful work to do; only want to be in the office when there is work to be done, don’t want “busy work” – …
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In 1980, the Bayh–Dole Act gave universities ownership of the intellectual property rights of research, even if federal funding had financed the project. In the following years, universities began to …
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