Whitaker Director comments on the challenges remaining for Irish Technology Transfer Offices

Dr James Cunningham, Director of the Whitaker Institute, is quoted in a recent Irish Times article on Technology Transfer Offices and the challenges they face around priorities, timelines and intellectual property.

Dr Cunningham, co-author of Effective Technology Transfer Offices: A Practitioner Framework (Springer, New York, 2014), says that a large number of challenges remain for technology transfer offices, but Ireland has come a long way.

“Since the establishment of the Technology Transfer Strengthening Initiative [first introduced by Enterprise Ireland in 2007] significant progress has been made in establishing and building TTOs within the Irish Third Level system. The collective performance of Irish TTOs is impressive in such a short period of time when you consider that US universities created TTOs in the 1980s.”

The full Irish Times article is available here: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/balance-between-what-industry-wants-and-what-academia-delivers-1.1749218