Success Mixing Reseach and Business at Technology UniversityTag: technology, university Category:post: 28 Apr 2008 read: 69 Implementation knowledge in real business at university is something not all university on the world do that. There are opinion that university is a place to produce knowledge only, free from business spirit. Business can distort pure of research as social responsibility of university. But, this opinion will be vanish if we look Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This university is called as University Technology Transfer. Why? First, we want to look about Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU). This university has brilliant accomplished note. In 20 year produce more than 1500 patent, 750 active and 250 be licenced. To manage and give commercial side to this prestige, HU have Yissum. Yissum is the Technology Transfer company of the HU. Yissum was founded to protect the Hebrew university's intellectual property and commercialize it. It is responsible for marketing the inventions and know-how generated by the University's renowned researchers and students. With Yissum, Yissum put Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 15 top universities worldwide, which is worth equal to 1 billion of Hebrew University Technology sales worldwide each year. look their is report at 2005, Yissum's earned around 35 million. Yissum is sample of successful company that generated by university. We can see, this university company is like other profit company. Yissum also do Initial Public Offering. They enjoyed first IPO on el aviv stock exchange in December 2005, nasvax ltd. They offer such as nanotechnology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, agriculture and nutrition, water and environmental technologies, computer science, homeland security. These are just few of the fields that they offer. They have Technology Transfer Services. are still far, university and business? |
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