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  • IFTF's Future Now draws on research and forecasting at the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto, CA think tank specializing in the future of technology, health, and organizational change. It began in September 2003.

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  • IFTF's Future Now is a group weblog, founded by Institute research director Alex Soojung-Kim Pang in September 2003. Its contributors include IFTF researchers interested in emerging technologies, the future of Asia, and the social and economic impacts on new technologies; IFTF corporate affiliates; academic partners; and members of the Innovation Lab, a Danish futures group with offices in Aarhus and Copenhagen. A complete list of contributors is available here.

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ben spigel

While most venture capitalists I've talked to are all about Bahy-Dole, one made a very interesting comment. Bahy-Dole doesn't _allow_ patenting, it _requires_ it. Universities that get federal dollars have to make a good faith effort to find useful research, patent it and sell it off. But, most universities (well, all universities that aren't MIT and Stanford) are really bad at this function. This is because the university administration looks at tech transfer offices as a complience cost, not a revenue generator.

I think there's a lot more to Bahy-Dole than exists right now in the lit. Hopefully we'll see a few more critical reviews of it soon.

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