Melba Kurman, who did the research for the report Best US Universities for Innovation Transfer?, said most metrics counted contractual units of knowledge, such as patents, rather than how effectively universities translated federal research funding into new knowledge and new technologies.
Duke University, University of West Florida and West Virginia University (WVU) received the most industry funding per million federal dollars, according to website InnovationExcellence.com.
Melba Kurman (pictured), who did the research for the report Best US Universities for Innovation Transfer?, said most metrics counted contractual units of knowledge, such as patents, rather than how effectively universities translated federal research funding into new knowledge and new technologies.
Kurman gathered 2010 data on numbers of publications, numbers of inventions disclosed and industry research funding.
