Toolbar. Before we begin, I would like to acknowledge and thank Autumn's online professional development sponsor, Marshall Gerstein.

We appreciate your ongoing support. I would now like to introduce today's session speaker, John Miner.

Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Thank you all for attending this webinar. For those of you who don't know, my name is John Miner.

I'm a Senior Licensing Officer at the Auburn University's Office of Intellectual Property.

Um, IPX for short. Uh, I'm also the chair for Autumn's Metrics Committee.

So I handle things like the licensing survey and the salary survey, and the current transformation of STAT.

Database. So, that's what we're going to kind of talk about today, a little bit of the results from this year's licensing survey. We're going to talk a little bit about how we're improving STAT and some of the new tools that will be available for you all to use.

Uh, when this thing all launches out. Uh, if there's any questions, comments, or concerns, you know, while we're going, uh, put them in the chat. I've got that up, and also the question and answer.

Portal, I believe, is also up, and I can see that.

Um, so if you guys need anything, feel free, interrupt, raise your hand, happy to talk.

Um, with that, I say let's roll on with it. Alright. So, uh, just some brief background about the survey, for those of you who've not familiar with it.

Uh, this has been conducted every year since 1991. It's one of the longest-running academic surveys out there.

Um, that has been collecting this type of data. I'm sort of the latest lighthouse keeper for.

Uh, the licensing survey. Um, it's a fantastic tool, and I've used it.

You know, for years before I was even involved in the licensing survey, I know many of you also use and rely on the data that we collect from this very important survey.

Uh, this year, uh, for the fiscal year 24 survey, we opened it earlier than usual. Um, we opened it in December before the end of the year.

Um, we have been trying to dial in. The start and release dates for this, you know, to listen to the concerns of some of the members.

Um, so this year, we opened it a little earlier for folks to try to get, uh, more respondents and more data in.

Uh, we ended up publishing, uh, this, uh, July, just a few weeks ago. Everyone should have received their copies of that.

Uh, we had over 200 participant, 200 institutions participating from the United States, and 30 participants in Canada.

Uh, so really, really solid response rate. We, we, again, always appreciate the data.

Uh, to have that much continuity for over 30 years is phenomenal.

Uh, a little bit about STAT, if you've not used STAT.

This is our database that you can access through the, uh, Autumn website.

Um, and this has… Most all of the data, uh, since the beginning. There's a few fields that have been.

Um, not included, uh, you know, sometimes questions change. We'll talk a little bit about that as we go through the.

Webinar. Uh, but, uh, all the data is in STAT. You can query it, you can run your own reports.

Extremely, extremely helpful tool, especially for benchmarking and… Um, uh, you know, providing information to your VPRs and everything like that, so… Really important tool, and I'm super excited to see and show you guys what we're doing with.

Stat and how we're improving it, uh, moving forward. Uh, what was the response rate? Yeah, so response rate is pretty good. We send it out to… think about 500-ish institutions, and I could be wrong about that.

Um, there are a lot of smaller institutions that. Don't participate, um, all the time, or may… change, you know, come in and come out of the survey over time, but we generally have about 200 institutions that have been.

Responding, you know, yearly for almost, you know, 20, 30 years, so… I hope that answered, uh, Carol's question.

Uh, infographics, uh, Autumn produces some really, really handy infographics. Um, I think we'll see one of those here in a second. Katie, if you want to pop the slide forward.

Uh, we'll go over some of these findings, and then you'll see the web, uh… some of those, um, infographics that you can.

Download from Autumn and use in your own institutions. So, this year, uh… some of the good news, right? Total research topped $109 billion.

So, again, we're seeing growth. Um, it was modest, uh… Uh, over last year, we did see a 5% drop from industry.

Funding this year, which, um, you know, I think a lot of people are looking at and wanting to see a increase rather than a decrease, but.

Um, that's kind of where we were. There was, however, a 10% rise in alternative sources, whether that's state funding.

Institutional, uh, or, you know, non-federal, non-industry funding. So, folks are looking for alternative.

Sources to get that funding. Uh, we saw a little pullback.

In the staffing. Uh, in licensing offices, about 4%.

Uh, so, you know. Maybe there's room to grow, we'll say, in tech transfer?

Uh, we had some international patent filings, which were pulled back, but invention disclosures rose, so… Uh, the pipeline is strong, we're still seeing, you know, over 25,000.

Disclosures handled by our offices every year, which is a phenomenal number.

Um, the income. Uh, gross licensing income fell about 24%.

Uh, running royalties dropped 40%. Uh, I think a lot of that can be attributed to some of the gains that we saw in the last couple years based off of some of the COVID.

Um, revenue that was received, so some really large. Revenues were reported. I think we're just seeing that sort of level off. We have some charts that will, uh, make this a little… easier to see, uh, coming up in the presentation.

Um, and, you know, while… some of that income did drop.

Uh, equity cash-outs rose 25% from last year. So, and, uh, other income jumped about 34%, right? So, folks are diversifying the portfolio. They're diversifying how they get their revenue into the offices, so… Um, it's still important, and I know a lot of institutions are worried about that, but I think, you know, as resilient as tech transfer offices are.

They're finding a way to survive, and… We hope to see the revenues continue to increase.

A lot of collaboration. I feel like this is one of the main points that I took from this year.

Uh, we've been recently, in the last few years, we've started adding.

Questions about inter-institutional agreements. Um, and how we are paying, uh, basically each other. So we saw a 15% jump in inter-institutionals between our institutions.

And the related payments were up 37%. Uh, so that's a great.

Great sign, you know, a lot of… multi-institutional agreements and a lot of cross-institutional partnerships, so… I say keep that up. You know, the more we're in this together, I think the, you know.

The better it all comes for everyone. Um, startups, always the number of people are interested in.

I had actually increased 5%, so not bad. And new products that got to the market, 8%.

So again, continuing to make impact, continuing to, um, you know, help positively affect everyone around us, so… Again, great, you know, great things to report this year.

Uh, there was one question I see here from Laura. There was some plans to include EU organizations in the survey and updates on that.

Um, I will have an update to that, uh, if you can wait, uh, a little bit, it will come up in the presentation, because we are… talking about expanding… Um, and I'm… I'm working with, uh, like, Ashley Stevens, one of our past presidents and great luminaries at Autumn.

Uh, to work with WIPO. And, uh, help develop… a survey that could be used by all tech transfer. You know, there's differences in what we'll see in the next slide, uh, with the Canadian findings. Katie, if you could go forward one.

Um, you know, you'll see there's some pretty big differences, U.S. To Canada.

Uh, the differences that you'll see when you throw in the EU, and then, like, a lot of growth that's happening right now in Asia. There are… some things that are common to everyone, but obviously, like, uh, currency, and some of the exchange rates, and some of these things.

So there is some effort that we're trying to go through that we can help.

Uh, to, I guess, get that pulse across every tech transfer community. So we're still working that out, but our hope is that, yes.

In the near future, we will be getting Europe, uh, maybe some of Asia.

Uh, and some of the other institutions who have, uh, and countries that have reached out to us to participate in the past. So yes, we will be getting there.

Um, so, Canada. Our good friends to the north.

$8 billion in funding, a nice 5% increase amongst the respondents.

Uh, there was a 15% rise in their industry-sponsored research, so… incredible signs in Canada, and just, I hope that we can get.

To that place in the U.S. Where our industry wants to fund more research and collaborate more with institutions.

Uh, Canada growing their staff by, you know, almost 4%. Um, I hope the 4% that left the U.S. Didn't just leave and go to Canada, but.

Um, staffing levels are increasing there a little bit, so that's great signs for them.

A little bit slower on the patent activity, um, a little… drop on the U.S. Issuances, uh, but a rise in the PCT filing. So, I think the Canadian institutions are maybe looking a little bit broader.

Than just the U.S, a little more global approach. Um, and I also, I'd like to give a nice shout-out here to Olivia Novak, who runs the Canadian survey. She's the one that handles all of the, um.

Uh, you know, managing of institutions, answering questions, um, and getting all that data sorted out and getting the participation rate as high as it is in Canada.

Thanks to Olivia, if anyone knows her, she's great. Canada kept on banging.

Income climbed 13%, a lot of royalties and revenue, and… A significant drop in their equity cashouts, but I think a lot of you understand, you know, equity is sort of a, uh, you know.

Peaks and valleys type of thing. Uh, so, uh, you know, I'm sure their number's gonna climb up, but their income did rise pretty substantially, so that's great.

Uh, startups took a little bit of a dive. Um, most of those ventures still are.

In their home provenance, um, so there's a lot of regional focus, I would say, with that.

Um, but, uh, they could, um, you know, that… startups are gonna have to be something that they look at, hopefully, to get that number.

Back upwards, or at least trending towards again. Uh, Katie, if you could move on?

Thank you. Uh, so these were some of the, um… infographics, uh, that I mentioned earlier, you can download these on Autumn.

I love these little fact sheets. Uh, this is what you see for the Canadian, uh, licensing survey.

Uh, Katie, could you show us the U.S. One as well?

There it is, beautiful. Uh, lots of great… I think these are one of the best one-page.

Sheets that you can have in your arsenal. Great to drop on the, you know, VPR's desk, or your president.

Board of Trustees, etc. It's great, and on the flip side of it, you can put your institution's data. So you can have this one-pager where the front side shows you, sort of.

The societal, uh, impact and benefits that Tech Transfer is bringing, and then on the other side of it, you can have the same chart.

With your institution's data that you can plug in. Um, so that you have something to share that, uh, is, I think.

Quite impactful. Uh, okay, Katie keeps going. Alright, now… So, these charts, I want to stop for just a second, just kind of clarify where we're at and what we're going to be looking at here next. So.

As you can see, this is, uh, since the last 20 years. These are 20.

Snapshots of data. These are the types of charts that are going to be readily available with the new STAT database. You will not have to.

Generate your own, uh, create your own. We are gonna have a full library of some of the most common.

Charts and comparisons and benchmarks that most people use. So, I think right out of the box, when you get to, um, play with the new stat database.

You're already going to have more tools than had ever been.

Present within STAT. Um, if you've not used it before, STAT is a.

Uh, it's basically a… it spits out an Excel spreadsheet for you.

You know, you can choose some parameters and choose how you want to put that data out.

Uh, but it doesn't give you, um, the ability to compare and contrast quite as well as what we're gonna have here with this new system. Um, so you can see here.

This is sort of the trend for the last 20 years of research funding.

And, you know, I'm… I hate the orange line on the bottom being as flat as it is, so I think that's something that we all need to kind of strive for, is to get industry more engaged, and.

Find out how we can break them into the tech transfer game a little bit more impactfully.

Uh, but we can see where Federal's going, and even our non-classified or other research, all going up in the positive direction. So that's, I think, great.

Uh, next slide, if you could, Katie. Um, and again, just to point out, you know, the sort of strength of the new, um… stat database.

These are all things that you're gonna pull out of the database, and what a lot of times folks are interested in.

Is benchmarking, and they want to know how they are doing relative to industry at large, relative to regions, relative to your peers or aspirational peers.

Um, and so all these charts are gonna be available, and it… I think, um, these are important.

Data points for all offices to consider, because you can really understand.

You know, how many disclosures you're getting versus your research expenditures.

We typically, uh, benchmark against research funding, and research funding. Disclosures, you know, FTEs, these are some of the main points that I think a lot of offices will look at and compare.

Uh, and so you'll see a lot of these charts are gonna deal with, you know, research funding as the baseline, so you can compare against that.

Uh, and here you see, you know, our disclosures versus research funding. Um, you know, we had a dip a few years ago. You can see the COVID dip, if you will.

Um, where, uh, numbers kind of got a little silly. Uh, things went down, some things went up, uh, like research funding, uh, but now, uh, both are aligning and sort of trending back in that same positive direction, which is… which is good.

Uh, go ahead there, Katie. Good. Another important chart, uh, startups, again, normalized against research funding.

Uh, you see the, uh, slight decline there post-COVID. Um, and even sort of a little jump as there was a lot of COVID startups that happened, and then went away almost as quick as they came.

Uh, I think we're, you know, you see a little bit of the uncertainty of, you know, sort of the political environment, certainly, when we talk about startups.

Uh, but, uh, we're moving back into, uh, positive territory here, so I think it's a good trend. We'll just have to see a few more years to see how it goes.

Uh, next slide, if you could, Katie. And again, disclosures versus issued patents, um, you know, disclosures is another great benchmarking metric to use, as is issued patents. I know a lot of institutions.

Track very closely the issued patents, so you can see here.

Nice little correlation, uh… Disclosures are rising, issued patents are rising, for the most part.

Next slide, if you could. Ah, so this is a… this is a really good one. Uh, this is your staffing. How do you measure if you guys are doing.

A great job. Oh! Oh, I apologize. Could we go back to the infographic? We may have gone a little too far.

Uh, for Libby, uh, Katie, could you go back to the infographic slide for a second?

And Libby, I will say that these will be made available, so if you have any specific questions.

Um, you know, and you want to see it, uh, you know, please let us know. We're happy to send it out, but… Um.

There's the infographics slide, yeah. So… Uh, and let me see, let me catch up on a couple of these other questions. Let's see, looking over 20 years, do we have any inflation-adjusted charts?

Uh, Greg's great question. Uh, we have not done any inflation-adjusted charts, but… I'm always looking for folks that are interested in that type of stuff, and if you want to participate in the.

Salary or licensing survey, uh, committees, and you have, uh, that kind of data drive, and you want to know about that.

I'd love to have, uh, the help and assistance in creating some of those inflation charts.

Uh, let's see, we got another question here about… Uh, has anyone ever measured percentage of their disclosures have federal funding? Yes, and you can… you can get that.

With STAT, because that is one of the questions we track. We track med schools versus non-med schools.

And we track disclosures that have federal funding. So you can get all that in STAT, so that's something that you can.

Produce on your own very easily. Hannah. Hey, Hannah. Um, do these trend charts control in any way for the number of institutions reporting?

Is it stable enough not to worry about it? Ah, that's a great question, Hannah.

Now, this is something that we have had to deal with for a while, and I'm not the first to point it out, but there are… uh, you know, like I said, about 200 core institutions that have been reporting solid for.

The last 20, 30 years. There are times when. Uh, there may be a change at the director level, an institution doesn't respond for a year, or what have you.

Um, but generally speaking, we are pretty stable, uh, as it comes to that reporting.

Um, you know, number. So, I would say I wouldn't worry too much about it.

There are some, uh, data folks that are very specific, though, about it, and… one way we're trying to, uh… sort of append that, if I can. When we launched this stat, uh, revival, we are going to go back for a period of a few years.

Um, and we're going to offer sort of an amnesty period for folks to allow them to put missing data into the system.

Um, because, you know, especially during the, uh, sort of COVID.

Uh, pandemic times, we had a huge staffing. Um, you know… turnaround and tech transfer. I think it was something like 30%, I think we clocked that we lost during that pandemic.

So there was a lot of directors that left, people retired.

And there was a number of institutions that weren't able to participate. We're trying to go back and make sure that we have.

As solid a data set, at least for this last, like, 5 or 10 years. I don't know that we're willing to go back to 1997.

To fill in a missing, uh, data point. I'm sure we can.

Um, uh, but really what I want to do is provide a solid 10-year period.

Where everyone knows that all these institutions have participated. There is no missing variables, and so that you really, um… you know, get as much data and as good a quality data as we can.

So, um, I hope that answers your question, Hannah. Um… And then Libby, the graph is for Canadian, is there one for U.S?

Uh, Libby, I'm not sure which one you're talking about. But we will… we're gonna keep moving.

Um. And… alright.

Uh, where… okay, uh, licensing staffing. All right. So, one of the things that, you know, a lot of folks use this for is to measure, like, how… Are their offices doing? How are their staff doing? And are they, you know, sort of benchmarked and…

You know, producing along the same lines as other offices, right? Am I getting enough out of John?

Uh, compared to, you know, other colleagues at other institutions, right?

Um, and so, with this chart, you can see, you know, this is broken out with licensing staff.

And then our other staff, the support staff who do, you know, the federal reporting, or, you know, handle your database management, they may not be doing the licensing per se, but without them, you know, tech transfer offices grind to a halt.

Uh, so important metric to have in there. And you can see, you know, that relation to licenses and options.

So, just another, you know, fun chart to look at. Uh, go ahead, Katie.

So here we see, you know, just, again, another great example. There's gonna be… there's a few… quite a few of these charts, actually.

Uh, but, uh, we wanted to include them so you could see the type of information and charts and graphs that you're going to be able to get.

Right out of the box with using the new STAT database. Uh, so this one here is applications total.

New, uh, versus, uh, disclosures. Um, and you can see, uh, they match up pretty good, the total versus new patent, uh, applications, uh, relative to your disclosures. So, um… you know, again, good data to have, and I think it's great if you're in office and you want to benchmark against this to understand.

You know, am I getting enough out of my… PIs, my investigators, you know, as it relates to.

Research dollars or number of disclosures that we're getting. If you could, Katie? There we go.

So, patents versus applications, they, you know, are in pretty, pretty good lockstep, I would say. I mean, obviously not every patent application becomes an issued patent. Um, I think, you know, if you look back at the chart, uh, you know, 20 years ago.

There was a little bit bigger spread there, so you're… I think you were seeing folks maybe, um, killing things during prosecution, or… Uh, just, you know, sort of, let's say, pulling back a little bit. Uh, as we've gotten, you know, more down the timeline.

I think that gap is shrinking, and you're seeing more folks.

Uh, to me, anyway, the way I would interpret this chart is, uh, we're taking a harder look at disclosures.

And we're filing on things that are… more likely to be licensed and are more commercially viable. Uh, so that's why I think you're seeing that spread kind of tighten, where, you know.

It is more likely that if we're gonna file on something, we're gonna take it all the way, as opposed to… you know, file and, you know, hope for the best, and, you know, just play a numbers game.

Uh, one sec, I have another question here. Uh, from Hannah.

Do these trend charts control in any way for the number of institutions reporting, or… oh, no, wait, what happened? Is that a… Oh, I apologize. Uh… That's a repeat question. Alright.

Apologies. Oh, this is, uh, one of my favorite charts, actually.

Uh, non-exclusive versus exclusive. Uh, again, this… you can just see the direction that this is going, you know? Um… Uh, when you, you know, 20 years ago, it was much tighter, right?

Uh, and I think most everyone was… was… you know, they were more in law… in step.

But as time has gone on, more and more institutions have, uh, really.

Developed, especially with software and the computer sciences. Uh, a real appetite for non-exclusive licensing. And you can see how far the spread apart is now.

And, you know, we're getting, you know, something like 6,000. Right? Non-exclusive licenses a year compared to the, you know, almost 2,000, or around 2,000, so… just an immense, immense amount of non-exclusive licenses, and I think it's great, because.

You know, there was a time when we weren't even asking about that.

Um, uh, for the survey, right? Uh, so I think it's a fantastic trend, and quite frankly, I like non-exclusive licenses. I mean, we're obviously still maintaining a pretty flat.

Trajectory when it comes to exclusive. But I think non-exclusives is just… more, um… you know, our technology's getting out into more hands, and that's affecting the public in a positive way, so I love that chart.

Uh, ooh, I see a salary survey. Uh, comment.

Uh, blah blah blah blah… Oh, okay, alright. Um, alright, I'm gonna have to come back to that one.

But I will address that. Uh, so here's a really, you know, simple chart. This is your FTEs and deals per.

Right? And you're seeing that, uh, an FTE, again, this is across the board.

And so you have to, I think, take some of this with a grain of salt, because there are some folks in tech transfer offices that are doing hundreds of.

Copyright licenses, uh, that can. You know, uh, adjust things a little bit, um, when, uh, we're talking about, say, someone that is primarily doing.

Life or physical science patent licensing, right? So, you know, right now, around a little under 8 deals per person.

Right, which is nice. It's good, I think that. Uh, how do you define a deal?

Well, Adia, we have, um, you know, uh, Ross, the deal is… the licenses or options that are in the survey. That's the metric that we're counting in the licensing survey. So we're… We're just saying options and licenses.

Uh, for this. This does not include. Inter-institutionals, uh, just to be clear. Uh, we do want to know about inter-institutionals, and we track that because it's important, uh, but that does not.

Um, uh, count in this particular slide. Uh, if you could, next one, please, Katie.

Ooh, this is… alright, so this is, uh, this is one of those charts that people love or hate.

Uh… you know, expenditures versus income. Uh, ideally, these would be trending both in the same direction. Um… Uh, but, uh, income is always a little bit trickier than.

Funding, I think. Uh, and you can see some of the advancements, especially when you get to the pandemic and the uptick in the federal.

Research, because… Yeah, and total research expenditures overall, but you see a… the last 5 years, we have jumped, uh, you know, significant. $3 billion, practically. I mean, that is a lot.

Of an increase. Um, and then you see some of that, again, we've mentioned it before, but some of the revenue that shot up.

When you see in that, you know, around 2021, right, those were those deals that were landing the COVID money.

Uh, you saw some pretty huge, uh, deals. Now that COVID money is starting to… go back down, and now we're basically back to where we were in 2021, uh, after that bump, so to speak.

Um… Oh, I see another… Anna. There's some possible ambiguity in the questions about how to count unpatented material licenses.

Uh, we tried to include a new section on that, and Hannah, I… we can… talk more about that, but in the survey, we are trying to capture as many other.

Licensing deals as we can, uh, with as much clarity as we can, um, because… Uh, you know, just to answer how many licenses or options maybe does not give the full picture.

Of how your institution is doing, or what you're doing. So I agree that there is some ambiguity.

But, boy, I'll tell you what, one thing I have come to realize in my role here.

Is the spread of how people read the instructions and definitions, which.

Admitting, you know, self-admitting, right? We have tried our best to improve over the last, uh.

A few years. Um, but the way people read things and want to report things, uh, spreads.

Pretty wildly different across our sector here, across the entire tech transfer field.

So, you know, uh, these are some of the battles that we have every year, right? The questions, you know, if they're.

Too detailed, too exact, we get… people that push back because they say, well, we don't track it that way, we can't track it that way.

If we go too broad, and we try to be a little loose with things, uh, people start throwing in extremely weird data, and… Uh, they want to count, uh, things that we wouldn't necessarily want to, um, include in the survey. So.

This is a balancing act, for sure, uh, to find that right… Um, you know, tone between, you know, how much is too much information versus not enough information.

You know, what people are willing and able to track, you know, not everybody's databases have the same capabilities.

So, it's, uh, you know, it is… It is a… it is a tough one sometimes. Uh, so… Um, yeah, so I thank you for highlighting that, Hannah.

Thank you, yeah, no, I understand. It is… It is hard to collect all this, yes. Uh, yes.

So, uh, thank you, Katie, for going on that. So this is, uh, one of the things that we've talked about, which is the benchmarking aspect.

Uh, we sort of normalize this, and again, we're using. This sort of paired against herd, NSF HERD data.

Um, which many of you are familiar with. Uh, but you can see how this breaks down across, uh, our, uh, five.

Sort of layers, alright? Um, you know, anyone who's in that billion dollar club.

Obviously, they're at the top, um, all the way down to the, uh, less than $100 million in research expenditures.

And you can get some really nice averages across disclosures and applications, licenses, and revenue.

Startups. So, again, from a benchmarking perspective, I think this is a very handy.

An important tool. It does not paint the whole picture. I think we all would agree to that.

Uh, but it does give you an idea of. You know, who's in your neighborhood and how… you know, if you're radically… beyond or below any of these things, but still within your, you know, let's say research expenditure.

Uh, bracket, you know, then it's maybe a chance for you to evaluate your office and either adjust.

Uh, in a way that would maybe improve, um, or… Uh, yeah, don't let off the gas if you're above, though. That's the… that's… that's for sure.

Um, alright. Uh, Katie, next slide. All right, well, this is sort of that benchmarking.

In a pie chart form, uh, so you can see how it breaks out pretty evenly, uh, overall. You know, everyone's right around 20%, so that's a really good split.

Um, for, uh, our whole industry, so I think that's, you know, interesting to see. There's no, like, one… group, you know, even the billion dollar or more, right? I mean, you know, so there's no one that's just above and beyond anyone else. This is…

Pretty well spread. Um, let me see here… We have a…

Okay, 100 million, yeah, selection bias. Hannah, you were gonna talk yourself right into being on this committee. I tell you what.

Uh, I need these types. This is… this is what we need. We need folks that can look at this stuff and.

Third committee, you could be on a third committee! Um… The, uh, you know, this is an all-volunteer group, uh, everyone who's on this, um, is in an office, they have a job.

A real job, and um… you know, this is a tough… This is a tough one, because, boy, some people are, you know, they're not thrilled with you all the time, or they don't like the questions, or what have you, but, you know, I think this is really an important.

Uh, committee in autumn. Because this is something that, especially when we talk about, like, salary survey.

Uh… this is for the membership, this is for us, for us to use. And so, you know, when you work on this committee, you're really helping your.

Colleagues around the nation, and even from an international perspective. Uh, so I'm a big proponent of it, and even if it's just a matter of.

You know, finding us at the conference, or shooting us these questions.

Um, we really appreciate, uh, the insight, uh, and the assistance, so I won't… I won't bag on you too much, Hannah.

Um, and uh… yes, do we get the slides? I believe we can make these slides available. Katie will… confirm or deny that, but I'm… I don't see why we couldn't make these slides available.

Uh, so let's talk a little bit about STAT. Because this has been a project that we have been… working on for a long time. Uh, it has taken us a while to go from the legacy system. Now, the surveys, both the licensing and salary, uh, surveys are run by one company, Peer Focus.

And that company is also now taking over the STAT database. Um, and so, uh, the later on, uh, this fall.

Uh, by the end of the year, you'll… I mean, the old stat database is still there, still go to the old version.

The new stat database will be up by the end of the year. Uh, I've… we have a few folks that have, um, some power users, I would call them, within the Autumn community, uh, have been given access and have been working through it and playing in the new database just to get, um, some sort of outside opinions on it.

Uh, but this new database, it's gonna take all the past data.

You know, 30 years, and we're gonna put this. In the same platform that everything else is in now, so it'll be one platform for all of our surveys, for the stat.

Much better continuity, and quite frankly, and again, nothing against the original stat, uh, database, but this one will have.

Um, an amazing amount of functionality and, um, you know, just usability.

And one thing that I think is going to be… well, I'll get to that in a second, but I'm just… I'm very excited about the new stat database. Uh, like we've talked about before, we're gonna do benchmarking.

You can save your benchmarks. You want to do just a… for me, I'm here in the southeast.

I can set up a southeast table, and I can save it, and that data comparison group is saved, and I can run that report anytime I want, from now until forever.

Uh, I'm gonna get charts, pre-canned charts. Uh, we get the comparison groups. You can do quick reports, like when you're gonna just say, hey, I want to know research expenditures for this year.

You don't have to, you know, run it in any particular way. We're gonna have quick reports.

We'll have Data Explorer, so you can look in this data, you can really dig down into it.

Variable choices, you're gonna get slide decks out of this. We're gonna have abilities to convert currency.

Um, one of my favorite things that is going to be happening here is.

The community is going to be able to build reports. And if you, you know, if I run a report, and I want to compare FTEs versus research expenditures versus inter-institutionals.

I can run that report, save that report. And then Hannah… Uh, cause I'm gonna pick on Hannah. Uh, can also see that report in the public.

Portion, and she can run that report. So, if we find some of our power users, our really data… heavy stat users, and they create some great reports that are usable.

Everyone's gonna be able to use those. So, there's a community aspect here that I think is really gonna take off, and people are going to.

Really, really enjoy seeing how others work with the data and, you know, the benefits and everything that you can get out of that. So, I'm super excited about STAT and the changes, and it's been a long time coming, but we're getting there, so I'm really happy with it.

Uh, salary. Okay, this one's my passion project. So, I've been doing the salary survey.

Uh, since 1999, my first committee I ever joined at Autumn.

Um, and uh, since then, uh, have been doing this every two to three years, with the exception of the pandemic, where we had a, uh, you know, a misfire, because.

Nobody was worried about salaries in the middle of, like, can we even keep our offices open? So, but we're back on track.

Uh, we've just released the survey, uh, results for, uh, that came out for this one. We had over 100 institutions.

Participate, um, and we compare data across, uh, 10. Uh, tech transfer roles, right? Uh, the 10 major positions that we have within Tech Transfer.

Uh, so we'll go through a few of those, uh, points now, if we can.

Uh, so some of the findings that we had from this year.

Uh, really, really positive gender representation, right? 52% of the survey respondents were women.

Uh, men do continue to kind of occupy a majority of leadership.

Uh, however, uh, women's leadership roles have increased, uh, you know, 5.

Across some of those leadership roles since the last survey, so we're seeing just a nice increase. And if you look back historically, that trend is continuing, right?

Uh… salary disparities, uh, median salaries were higher for. Men in 7 of those 10 positions, however.

Uh, you know, in, like, in-house counsel, uh, women were about 5% higher median salary. So, um, you know, parity's not there yet, but I think we're moving in that direction, so that's a positive thing.

Uh, of course, you know, everything changed after the pandemic. Um, you know, uh, workforce mobility, right? And we've been tracking this question now for a few years.

Um, uh… it's… most folks, uh, are… are… offered at least a remote or hybrid position, right? We have 56… um, you know, there's a lot of people that are working remote.

Uh, but the workforce mobility, right, 56%, almost 60% of our total profession.

Have only been in their role for 3 years or less.

Right? So that's pretty stark, right? These are… this means that there's a lot of folks that are still really new, really green.

Um, and really can benefit from the community, the Autumn and the tech transfer professionals community.

So, if you see anyone at Ottoman, they're wearing a first-timer tag at their conference, you know, go on up to them and talk to them, and… And see how you can help them, right?

I kind of mentioned a little bit about the hybrid, you know, since that.

Since the pandemic, we see that. It is pretty much everywhere, right? Uh, and it is… Definitely popular. Uh, I don't know that it's going away.

Uh, although I am starting to hear more institutions are pushing back to a, you know, work in the office.

At least part-time, uh, some are full, going back to the office, so that trend may start to be reversing, right? I think this is a full contact sport.

And you're best serving your faculty if you're there, and you're interacting. Uh, you know, that's just my opinion, how I like to work.

Um, but I think others are starting to kind of. See that and maybe go back in that position, or in that direction.

Um, and lastly, uh, professional certifications. Um, 44% of the institutions.

Consider the CLP or the RTTP, um, uh, uh… certifications in their hiring, so… Uh, plug for those guys, yeah.

Seek additional, um, certifications within Tech Transfer. It cannot hurt. Um, let's see here… Oh. Help us tell the story of Tech Transfer's impact, right?

Uh, if you, um, participate. Uh, in these surveys, you get… Uh, full access to the office, right? Everyone who can participate, or, you know, if my office participates, I get access to STAT, I get access to the… the data. Um, you can purchase these things, you can purchase both the salary.

Survey and the licensing survey stat, uh, stat database. Um, you know, all that's available through Autumn. You can follow the links.

Uh, but, uh, I do encourage everyone to participate, because the more participation that we have in these, the better the data, the better the fidelity of the data.

Um, and it just isn't leaving anyone behind. So, uh, I encourage everyone that can participate to participate.

Um, and then you'll get. This data for free. And if you can't participate.

You know, you can always purchase it. Um, I think that's about it. We have a few more minutes. I was a little fast on some of those charts, but if we have any additional questions, I'm happy to.

Take those, or any comments. Uh, feel free to, uh.

Take yourself off mute, or anything you want?

And I'll say, if you don't have any, or you want to reach out offline.

Uh, my email's up there. Feel free to reach out to me. My email's available, or you can reach Katie.

At Autumn, and we can get you the answers to any questions that you may have about.

Surveys, participation, past data. Um, or any of that good stuff.

Uh, Laureen. Um… We are working on it, Lauren.

We are trying our best to… again, there's a lot of moving parts about.

How everyone answers these questions. The definitions in the EU are different than the definitions in the US, so… Um, yeah, we're working on that. We want to get everyone involved.

Um, so, yes. Uh, are there plans to put a how to… yes, Rozzy, great question.

And I'm sorry I didn't bring that up, uh, in the talk. Yes, we will have tutorials on the STAT site.

We'll have the FAQs, we'll also have some, like, walkthroughs, because it is a new system.

Um, and you're gonna need a little bit of training. Uh, not much, it is pretty intuitive, but there's.

So much capabilities, there's so many possibilities that you can do with this new stat database. There is going to be some of that training. So, yes, we will make sure that everyone's gonna get that.

Uh, Shoham, is there any consensus on the software tools? We have that data that's actually… we're working on that, we collected it the last 2 years to see who's using what databases.

Um, and so we will release that shortly. We're sort of… normalizing it right now. Um, but I will say that there has been a lot of discussion recently.

Um, amongst the tech transfer discussion, uh, forums about. Tto software systems, and who's using what, and what's happening, basically, in that.

So, um, we will get… that information out there, uh, shortly.

Let's see, uh, Libby, does stat categorize data based on knowledge, fields, and economic sectors?

Um, no. The… no, it does not, in short. Uh, it's… it is literally the fields of the survey, so… Um, we don't have… we don't ask about economic sectors, and we don't have, sort of, knowledge.

The closest I could say to that is you can compare med schools versus non.

Medical schools that have med colleges. Um, you can… sort of break down a little bit by institutions, you know, R1s and HBCUs, and this type of thing, but we don't really get into… economic sectors for deals, or… uh, you know, specific knowledge fields.

Uh, let's see, uh, Jackie, for the grace period of previous years, will you have some of the newer questions on it?

Okay, so that's another great question. Uh… when we collect the data, we will probably only collect.

The data that is… still in play or uniform to what we have today.

Right? We're not trying to go back and collect for questions that we do not track anymore.

Um, so it may be a truncated survey that if you go back, uh, 5, 6, 7 years.

You may only have to fill out, uh, you know, sort of 10 questions, let's say, or the big questions, um, so that we can get the main data, right? As opposed to, you know, maybe some of the… A more esoteric questions, so…

Yeah. Uh, we will not be getting. Backwards on, let's say, gender, right? We're not going to be going back 10 years and inserting the gender questions. Um, you know, we've talked about that with others in the past. So yeah, it's probably going to be mostly.

The questions that are the big 10 that we have, the big nine that run through the survey, and have run through the survey for 30 years.

Alright, I think that was… I think I got to the end of the chat box there of all the questions.

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