Survey of STEM Faculty in Higher Education, Experience of the Technology Transfer Office

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With this report, you’ll find detailed data on how 239 STEM faculty at 100+ colleges and universities, primarily research universities and medical schools, rate their experiences with the technology transfer office. You’ll find data on faculty satisfaction levels, how often TTO services are utilized, how faculty view TTO performance, as well as faculty perceptions of whether tech transfer offices are being over- or underfunded and over- or understaffed. And get a highly detailed overview of how faculty respond and relate to the TTO, and whether they believe their university should be more supportive of the office.

The study is jam-packed with over 90 easy-to-scan charts and figures displaying critical data you can’t find in any other publication. 

A one-of-a-kind source of specialized survey data from top research institutions

The Survey of STEM Faculty in Higher Education, Experience of the Technology Transfer Office includes 77-pages of in-depth commentary and analysis based on extensive surveying of 239 faculty from 100+ research universities. You’ll find scores of data points in over 90 tables, including:

• Faculty grading the efforts of the tech transfer office in promoting university-developed technologies
• Faculty opinion on whether the university should spend more, less, or about the same on technology commercialization
• Faculty opinion on whether the tech transfer office has sufficient staff
• Faculty view of what universities can do better to improve technology commercialization
• Percentage of faculty who interact with the TTO or sponsored research offices
• Perceived ease of filing a technology disclosure
• Satisfaction with university-faculty revenue split in licensing, patenting, and other revenues
• Satisfaction with the commercial acumen of the technology transfer office
• Satisfaction with arranging partnerships
• And much more

See how your organization compares and identify key areas for improvement!

Unlike any other available resource, Survey of STEM Faculty in Higher Education, Experience of the Technology Transfer Office provides you with an in-depth look into key data so you can compare your practices and see how you stack up against your peers – and use the data to pinpoint areas for improvement.

Best practice data you can trust

Data in the report is broken out by a range of personal and institutional variables including age, gender, race/ethnicity, work title, tenure status, lifetime grant total receipts, as well as university type, total enrollment, and public/private status.

You can rely on the accuracy of the detailed data, commentary, and analysis provided in this one-of-a-kind report. It was compiled and written by James Moses, President of Primary Research Group. Mr. Moses is the author of hundreds of industry studies and benchmarking reports and is a former economist for the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Survey of STEM Faculty in Higher Education, Experience of the Technology Transfer Office is available to purchase for $325 as a PDF file.