In This Issue Return to LES Home Power Networking: A Strong Success With Key Lessons Learned Spring Meeting + LES International President's Message: Teamwork Makes CLP Initiative A Success Sector Spotlight: Chemicals, Energy & Materials Sector Mini-Plenary Covers Diverse CEMC Interests Health Care Sector Private Equity Comes To Biotech Received A Charge Of Patent Infringement? What To Do Next Local Chapters Celebrate The Holidays Boston Chicago Maryland & Washington D.C. New Jersey LES International Americas Connect With New Collaboration Markets For Technology: Challenges and Opportunities Foundation Focus Licensing Survey Provides Snapshot Of Industry Where Are They Now? Save the Date! Plan For Orlando In 2008 LES Calendar of Events		Markets For Technology: Challenges and Opportunities Duke University Symposium The Fuqua School of Business • February 20, 2008 • 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM Duke University's Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Fuqua School of Business is hosting a one-day symposium, "Markets for Technology: Challenges and Opportunities." Worldclass experts on the operation of technology markets will review the changes that have occurred in contracting, licensing and related practices over the past two decades, and anticipate what best practice will look like in the coming years. The symposium will also consider the impediments to the growth and diffusion of wellfunctioning technology markets, and what management and government might do to address these impediments. There is no charge for the conference. Keynotes speakers will include: Marshall Phelps, Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property at the Microsoft Corporation, and Executive-in- Residence at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, will speak on: "Technology Markets: The Opportunities Ahead." Linda Sanford, IBM's Senior Vice President for Enterprise on Demand Transformation and Informa tion Technology, will speak on "Open Innovation." The two panel discussions will treat: "The Transformation of Technology Markets and Best Practices Looking Forward." "Impediments to Technology Markets: What Are They, And What Can Firms And Government Do?" Markets for technology play an important role for both management and society. For management, such markets represent important opportunities to earn returns either by selling knowledge and related assets to others, or from commercializing knowledge assets acquired from others. More generally, technology markets advance social welfare by enabling a fuller exploitation of the division of labor between those most capable of invention and those most capable of commercializing those inventions. Moreover, by underpinning such a division of labor, markets for technology strengthen the incentives to invent. It appears that markets for technology have grown rapidly over the past two decades. This growth is associated with the proliferation of technology-based startups spanning the life science and information technology sectors, as well as the inclusion of new institutional actors such as universities and other nonprofit research institutions. Moreover, even large, established firms have increasingly availed themselves of the growing opportunities to both sell and acquire technology. LES members are invited to atttend and participate at no charge. Tanya Moore, LES Foundation Board member says, "This conference will provide a broader view of the IP landscape today and how it is likely to evolve. The evolution will necessitate changes to how IP organizations behave and evolve over time." The symposium is intended to engage those with interests in venture creation, business and technology strategy, intellectual property and related policies, as well as corporate and independent patent counsels. The panels will be structured to elicit extensive dialogue between the experts and the audience. For more information and registration go to www.fuqua.duke.edu/event/ipconference/.
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