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Re: An Open Letter to Technology Transfer Offices...

stevegotz — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:26:18 -0000

Thanks Karthik.

Re: Adventures with Duct-tape Part II: Kids Revenge | Steve Gotz

stevegotz — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:10:08 -0000

Wait till Conor sees the fun that the kids are having with a few dabs of Super Glue!

Re: Thoughts on Interviewing @ Google

stevegotz — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:24:35 -0000

Feedback from the Recruiter was fairly timely...roughly 7-10 days after each round.

Re: http://www.nonconformingmind.com/post/8212089629

stevegotz — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:57:32 -0000

Yeah...ran into it on the way home a few weeks ago.

Re: http://f4fred.tumblr.com/post/3501911737

stevegotz — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:42:44 -0000

Nice post Fred.

You should take a look at Stephen Johnson's book "Where Good Ideas Come From." He does an admirable job of refuting the notion that ideas spring from the minds of solitary geniuses. Sure they can start with smart people, but they are cultivated, extended and polished by creative cultures that are ultimately shaped by their physical environments. Good ideas don't magically emerge from crowdsourcing and indiscriminate networking. They are slow hunches that materialize into view during years of reflection, tinkering and exploration of the 'adjacent possible'.

Re: http://f4fred.tumblr.com/post/2976366030

stevegotz — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:47:35 -0000

Glad to see you got Disqus working!

~Steve

Re: Nova Premium Tumblr Theme

stevegotz — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:23:18 -0000

Incidentally do you know what's going on with the Flash error message for music files:

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Did a quick search and this seems like a fairly pervasive issue across multiple themes. Odd thing is I only get this error message on the main page, if I click through to an individual post the file plays fine through flash.

~Steve

Re: Nova Premium Tumblr Theme

stevegotz — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:07:59 -0000

Perfect...appreciate the fast response! Thanks!

Re: Nova Premium Tumblr Theme

stevegotz — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:27:35 -0000

Great theme Jonathan...thanks! Any idea when you are going to be releasing the instructions for the Sidebar Widget functionality?

Re: http://www.nonconformingmind.com/post/900023381

stevegotz — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:53:38 -0000

I encoded the video at the wrong rate so it takes a bit longer to stream. If you click play, then pause it will start buffering the video. Just let it sit there for 5 minutes and it should play fine.

Re: http://www.nonconformingmind.com/post/698411069

stevegotz — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:28:30 -0000

What's also amazing is that Ireland is just now getting around to finishing the intercity motorways! ;-)

Re: Thinking of applying to an accelerator programme?

stevegotz — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:40:50 -0000

How did you find the Endeavour Programme?

Re: Thinking of applying to an accelerator programme?

stevegotz — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:39:06 -0000

Hi Conor,

I used Visio 2007, which has a nice timeline feature built-in. It's one of the only reasons I still have Windows installed on my Mac!

~Steve

Re: http://bijansabet.com/post/379861076

stevegotz — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:19:18 -0000

Great stuff...did the same thing with an old set-top box.

Have you seen Gever Tulley's "5 dangerous things you should let your kids do" TED video?

http://www.ted.com/talks/ge...

Re: Harvard Business Review on Tech Transfer

stevegotz — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:53:14 -0000

Thanks for the comment Peter!

I think most people will recognise that the era of the blockbuster drug is for the most part over. What we are seeing now is a drug pipeline targeting multiple sub-conditions. By trying to link the decrease in drug develop directly to the inefficiencies of technology transfer offices, the authors have not only highlighted their relative lack of understanding of the drug development process but also lessened the impact of their core message, which I believe still stands.

I believe that the thrust of their argument is that in the face of commercialisation monopolies most TTO's have little incentive to bring about meaningful service level improvements. Correct me if I am wrong, but you don't need to look further than the likes of Eircom, AT&T, Microsoft, the DMV (in the US), the HSE, etc. to see how effective monopolies have tended to encourage status-quo behaviours, with innovation typically occurring only after new entrants disrupt the equilibrium. So if you accept that monopolies are poor drivers of innovation, then how can you accept that TTO monopolies are a good thing for Universities and inventors? When was the last time you heard of a University TTO doing a customer satisfaction survey, or solicited anonymous feedback directly from the researchers they serve? I am not saying it hasn't been done, but it certainly is not the norm in TTO's, despite the fact that most major businesses use these tools on an almost daily basis.

A corollary is the relative small size of most TTO's, brought about by limited University resources, means that they lack the relative economies of scale necessary to specialise in every area that would be required to successfully exploit the range of commercial possibilities coming out of most decently-sized multi-disciplinary Universities.

I do not think that the Kauffman Foundation's proposal is a panacea by any measure, but it is causing everyone (as evidenced by the activity on Techno-L) to reevaluate their assumptions and start thinking about alternative models in a relatively young industry that has yet to see much disruptive innovation.

Re: Harvard Business Review on Tech Transfer

stevegotz — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:28:08 -0000

Absolutely, technology self-provisioning (#7) is increasingly becoming the driving force in adoption of enterprise 2.0 applications. It will be an issue that many multinationals struggle with, much in the same way that they have with their social network policies. The companies who are able to balance traditional IT demands with the needs of up-and-coming Millennial's will be well positioned to capture previously untapped efficiencies.

Re: The Phobia of Nonconforming Mind

stevegotz — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:15:47 -0000

LOL...think the general consensus was parking on toilets is different than parking at the mall!

Re: The future of technology transfer...

stevegotz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:01:08 -0000

Received this email from someone in response to this post and thought it would be a good idea to pass it along....

Just to add to the debate. In Europe traditionally there used to be a right known as Professor's Privilege which applied in many countries. This has been abandoned as unworkable in most places with some residual rights in parts of Italy, Finland and some German institutions. I have a summary of the places where it applies. It was found that it made collaboration between industry and academia unworkable. Collaboration is meant to be the only way forward in terms of Open Innovation which does not mean free access to IP. I have first hand experience of trying to resolve nightmare arrangements with a Professor who has IP based on this deal prior to when he came here and its polluting/complicating everything he is trying to do now.

Re: The Phobia of Nonconforming Mind

stevegotz — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:42:51 -0000

I had an interesting conversation with someone from IBM's European VC Centre before I left and the feeling was that the ecosystem is progressing to the point where something like this would be very feasible. They are looking to do something around their Smart City initiative which could dovetail nicely with something like TechStars.

Re: Twitter Link Page

stevegotz — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:21:58 -0000

Anyone else using "Favorites" to tag links they want to follow-up on using their desktop system? It is functional but I end up with multiple pages of high-quality links which I am constantly endeavouring to reach the bottom of. So in addition to battling my way to a zero-Inbox policy, I am fighting Twitter-link overload. With that said it would be impossible to personally aggregate all of that information, so in this case quality far outweighs the management cost...however I'm not sure the same logic applies to my Inbox!

~Steve

Re: America, Obama

stevegotz — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:29:42 -0000

Ooops...for some reason Tumblr on my iPhone cut off half of my post. Redrafted the rest and added a link to the Opening & Closing comments.