Maximizing the ROI of intellectual property

By Chris Nicholson. Universities widely consider the revenue behind intellectual property to be a secondary concern. But even for the noble academic, there are dollars on the table. In terms of making money from inventions, New York University does pretty well. In 2013 it earned $214 million from intellectual property (IP) created through research, primarily in the schools of medicine and engineering and in the departments of computer science and physics. More...