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AUTM Canadian Licensing Activity Survey FY 2006 FY2006 AUTM Canadian Licensing Activity Survey Survey Summary A Survey of Technology Licensing (and Related) Performance for Canadian Academic and Nonprofit Institutions and Technology Investment Firms ® Survey Summary AUTM Canadian Licensing Activity Survey: FY2006 Survey Summary www.autm.net ©2007 The Association of University Technology Managers®. All Rights Reserved. No part of this report may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from AUTM. Association of University Technology Managers®, AUTM® and are registered trademarks of the Association of University Technology Managers. AUTM Licensing Activity Survey™ is a trademark of AUTM. 3 AUTM Canadian Licensing Activity Survey: FY2005 Letter from Dear AUTM members and colleagues, the AUTM AUTM is proud to release this summary report of the AUTM Canadian Licensing Activity President Survey™: FY2006. The dedicated work of many people makes the Survey possible and AUTM expresses its gratitude to them, as well as the 39 Canadian research performing institutions who responded to it; a record number of respondents to the Canadian Survey. The Survey reflects the ongoing efforts of AUTM to inform the public about the activities of academic technology transfer professionals and to enhance their understanding of the context in which these activities take place. The impact of technology transfer is not in mere numbers reflecting the activities of offices, but rather in the benefit to the Canadian public of the new products introduced by our licensing partners to the marketplace in 2006. As professionals, we are excited by the 471 new relationships formed by licensing between companies and respondent institutions including more than 30 startups contributing to local economic development. Currently 1,138 active relationships are reflected, and our members have reported licensing income levels not seen since 2001. This income rewards institutions, students and faculty for their contributions to the supply chain of innovation. With the support of federal and provincial programs to enhance commercialization and technology transfer activities, employment in technology transfer grew to new levels in FY2006. Though employment has increased, in general a relatively small group of professionals manages the intellectual property generated by the faculty, students and staff of institutions conducting nearly $5 billion (Canadian) in research. 4 Survey Summary The AUTM Canadian Licensing Activity Survey: FY2006 provides a window onto the activities of AUTM’s members and the institutions they serve. Our institutions transfer knowledge in many ways and we recognize that these numbers are just a part of the actual contributions from research performed at them. While no single set of measures can capture the full contribution of our institutions to society, nor capture the complex movement of research into use that benefits the people of Canada, we hope that you as the consumer of the information in this summary still find it useful. Patrick Jones, Ph.D. AUTM President www.autm.net 5 AUTM Canadian Licensing Activity Survey: FY2006 Letter from Dear AUTM Members and Colleagues, AUTM VP I am very pleased to present the AUTM Canadian Licensing Activity Survey: FY2006. Canada I would like to acknowledge and thank the three Canadians who have worked so hard on the AUTM Metrics and Surveys Committee throughout 2006-07: • Sean Flanigan, University of Ottawa; Chair – FY2006 Canadian Licensing Activity Survey (and co-editor) • Tanya G. Glavicic-Théberge, McGill University • Tanya Moxley, Springboard This is the third year AUTM has published an individual summary report for Canada. The Canadian technology transfer profession has truly come of age over the past five years, as is evidenced in this survey. The survey responses show many areas of success such as: • There are now more people working in tech transfer in Canada than has ever been reported by our respondents; • Licensing income has returned to levels reported in 2001 and set a new record for total licensing revenue reported; and • The number of institutions participating in the AUTM Canadian Licensing Activity Survey reached a new high in 2006. Inclusion of data reported in the AUTM U.S. Licensing Activity Survey: FY2006 Summary shows that, in many areas, technology transfer is making an impact. Specifically, Canada is still reaping the benefit of an increase in research funding from our provincial and federal governments, leading to a subsequent increase in the number of technology disclosures received by the technology transfer offices (TTOs). There also was an increase in the number of full-time licensing professionals employed by respondents, an increase in patent applications and more licenses. However, it appears that in Canada, the financial climate for startups has still not recovered from the 2000-2001 near simultaneous collapse in the Internet, telecommunications and biotechnology sectors. 6 Survey Summary Despite accomplishments, academic technology transfer is an arduous, sometimes grueling, process that requires time before results are realized. A few institutions may achieve deals that are financial blockbusters, but these have often taken many years to bear fruit. Most institutions eventually see a modest financial return from their activities after 10 to 15 years. So why do we engage in technology transfer? We hope that this year’s survey vignettes, along with the Better World Reports, will help readers place academic research commercialization into context and more fully understand why technology transfer professionals are committed to their work. As Stuart Howe pointed out in a previous survey, “Getting research results to the public is, quite simply, the reason technology transfer professionals are passionate about their work.” I feel that this is even more true today as more technology makes it onto the market and we, as professionals, can see the fruits of the work from the research community as well as our labor in the commercialization of their technologies. AUTM is fortunate to have so many professionals who are truly passionate about what they do and who give generous amounts of time and expertise to the organization, thereby improving the caliber of technology transfer professionals, both in North America and around the world. The AUTM Annual Licensing Activity Survey is a valuable tool, not only for benchmarking between academic technology transfer offices, but also for analysis by academics and individuals who shape Canadian public policy. We have included a new www.autm.net selection of vignettes this year to show commercialization activity from every province across Canada, from universities, hospitals and colleges. Special thanks goes to: • Sean Flanigan, who has co-edited this report. Together we encourage all Canadian universities, hospitals and colleges to participate in future surveys. We are keen to continue to see the survey grow from strength to strength. As Sean says, “Good numbers count.” 7 AUTM Canadian Licensing Activity Survey: FY2006 • The term of Ray Hoemsen, Red River College/NSERC and Barbara Eccles, J.D., Lakehead Unversity, compiled the vignettes from the universities and hospitals, and increased the number of contributions from the colleges. • Tanya G. Glavicic-Théberge of the Office of Technology Transfer at McGill University, an active member of the committee for the past few years, will be assuming the responsibility for the survey and report commencing with the FY2007 activity. • Tanya Moxley has been helpful, even while off the committee, in bringing a tremendous amount of respondents to the survey from Atlantic Canada and, this year, agreed to join the committee and add her skills to drafting this report. Caroline Bruce, University of British Columbia 2006-2008 AUTM Vice President for Canada 8 Survey Summary Acknowledgements for U.S. and Canadian AUTM Surveys I am pleased to present the third Canadian AUTM Annual Licensing Activity Survey report; while AUTM is an international organization, and licensing activity surveys are conducted across the globe, the U.S. and Canadian surveys are conducted together each year. This year’s Canadian report discusses the unique environment of Canada. North America provides for some commonality between U.S. and Canadian technology transfer, but the funding and ownership elements are often different across the borders. Geography does not impact how AUTM members see their efforts rewarded through the creation of more startup companies, more academic research-based products released to the public and more active relationships with companies (through licenses to develop and/or release products). AUTM members enable this activity by managing an institution’s intellectual property, providing advice or managing research or clinical agreements with companies, making research tools widely available to other researchers and participating or leading discussions that foster greater university–industry collaboration, among other activities. This Summary report for Canada, prepared by the 2006 AUTM Metrics & Surveys Committee and the Social Impact Vignettes Sub-Committee, represents an initial step in providing non-practitioners greater insight into the academic technology transfer process and data meaningful to that effort. The United States has released their own Survey Summary report from the Annual Licensing Activity Survey. www.autm.net Dana Bostrom, Sean Flanigan
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