tech – Scott J. Pearson’s Book Review

Tech Transfer 2.0: How Universities Can Unlock Their Patent Portfolios & Create More Tech Startups

By Scott J. Pearson | April 3, 2025April 3, 2025 by Scott J. Pearson

Tech transfer offices in American universities attempt to translate innovations from their research labs into industry and the wider marketplace. Tech transfer’s successes tend to be counted in patents and revenue, but most scientific advances run through larger pipelines of graduating students and journal publications. The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 attempted to increase the transfer of patents from universities’ labs into licensing to industry. However, as Melba Kurman notes, successful tech transfer has been around…

Management-Business Software-Technology

Review: The DevOps Handbook

By Scott J. Pearson | July 28, 2019July 28, 2019 by Scott J. Pearson

DevOps is a movement about the management of computer programmers. It basically says that Development (coding) and Operations (deployment and maintenance) should communicate more and better. Such workability allows for better error detection, swifter deployment of code, etc. Interestingly, I’ve worked mainly in research environments where I’ve been in charge of both Development and Operations at the same time. I worked in a corporation with separate Dev and Ops for a few years – and…