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NASA Intellectual Property Negotiation Practices and their Relationship to Quantitative Measures of Technology TransferIn the current political climate NASA must be able to show reliable measures demonstrating successful technology transfer. The currently available quantitative data of intellectual property technology transfer efforts portray a less than successful performance. In this paper, the use of only quantitative values for measurement of technology transfer is shown to undervalue the effort. In addition, NASA's current policy in negotiating intellectual property rights results in undervalued royalty rates. NASA has maintained that it's position of providing public good precludes it from negotiating fair market value for its technology and instead has negotiated for reasonable cost in order to recover processing fees. This measurement issue is examined and recommendations made which include a new policy regarding the intellectual property rights negotiation, and two measures to supplement the intellectual property measures.
Document ID
19970027261
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Bush, Lance B.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA United States)
Date Acquired
August 17, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1997
Publication Information
Publication: The Sixth Alumni Conference of the International Space University
Subject Category
Urban Technology And Transportation
Accession Number
97N26291
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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