July 21, 2000

Magazine Ranks Colleges on Technology Transfer

A technology magazine has come out with a new rating system to rank universities' success in technology transfer. But even some of the institutions that ranked highest say they're not sure the methodology makes sense.

The magazine, Technology Review, compiled its ratings, in the July/August issue, using a formula that is based on the number of times a university's patents from the previous five years are cited in patents for the current year. The more a patent

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