Watch the Regents' Committee on Innovation Transfer & Entrepreneurship of Aug. 19, 2021

Last week on Thursday, the Regents had a second off-cycle meeting following the Health Services Committee meeting of Wednesday. Although there was a public comment option, no speakers signed up. (Maybe, no one quite knew what the new committee was all about.) The new committee had some outside advisors, among them Peter Taylor, one-time chief financial officer for the Regents. Taylor, when he was in office, opposed the kind of social divesting which the Regents have followed under his successor.* A lot time was spent talking about installing a system of systemwide patent tracking, apparently to prevent infringement of patent rights held by UC. One Regent did point to the UCPath system as a cautionary tale of new computer systems. There was discussion of various legal issues. Apart from the cautionary reference to UCPath, the committee seemed enthusiastic. I didn't hear a lot of "what-could-possibly-go-wrong" type comments.

You can watch the committee at the link below:

https://archive.org/details/regents-health-services-committee-8-18-2021/Regents-8-19-2021-Special+Committee+on+Innovation+Transfer+and+Entrepreneurship.mp4

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*Taylor's view of divestment for social reasons (as of 2014) is at:

Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXbABD-3o4.