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]]> By: Riccardo Cannaviellohttp://tbed.org/2010/my-response-to-the-white-house-rfi-on-commercialization-of-university-technologies/#comment-7485 Riccardo Cannaviello Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:38:03 +0000 http://tbed.org/?p=411#comment-7485 Thank you for this good letter, filled with thoughtful context. I would tend to favor an alternative solution. Based on direct experience, POCCs aren't the answer if they're staffed by low-wattage program administration types who survive by "educating faculty members on how to become entrepreneurs" as you perfectly put it. Without naming names, let's just say I've lived and worked in San Diego and in Los Angeles, and I've yet to see a POCC that works.My alternative proposal is this: let the funding agencies increase the average SBIR dollar amount, while requiring that the extra money be spent on professional-grade commercialization.By encouraging commercialization to become decentralized, we would deliberately undergo a messy stage of fragmentation.Eventually, the commercialization industry should consolidate around successful commercialization practitioners identifiable by their RESULTS, rather than self-preserving POCC bureaucracies. Thank you for this good letter, filled with thoughtful context. I would tend to favor an alternative solution. Based on direct experience, POCCs aren’t the answer if they’re staffed by low-wattage program administration types who survive by “educating faculty members on how to become entrepreneurs” as you perfectly put it. Without naming names, let’s just say I’ve lived and worked in San Diego and in Los Angeles, and I’ve yet to see a POCC that works.

My alternative proposal is this: let the funding agencies increase the average SBIR dollar amount, while requiring that the extra money be spent on professional-grade commercialization.

By encouraging commercialization to become decentralized, we would deliberately undergo a messy stage of fragmentation.

Eventually, the commercialization industry should consolidate around successful commercialization practitioners identifiable by their RESULTS, rather than self-preserving POCC bureaucracies.

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