Recent Consulting Reports

and a Sample of Publications

Letter to John McDougall, President of the National Research Council, Canada questioning their proposed expenditure of between $250k - $500k for the development and delivery of a series of workshops under the general title of, "Performance Management Training", June 30, 2010

Intellectual Property Management Policies and Practices Used by Canada's Science-Based Departments and Agencies: Do They Support or Hinder Technology Transfer and S&T Collaboration, Report to the Interdepartmental Knowledge Translation and Commercialization Working Group, co-chaired by Industry Canada and the National Research Council, Ottawa, ON, May, 2008

Management and Leadership of Research Scientists and Engineers: Why Are We Mismanaging a Strategic Human Resource?, Presented to Members of the InnoClub Meeting, June 13, 2007, Shanghai, China

Letter from Shanghai: Teaching Chinese R&D Managers, published in Research-Technology Management, Vol. 50, No. 1, January-February, 2007, p. 4-5

Development of an R&D Management Self-Assessment Tool, National Research Council (developed in collaboration with Hickling Arthurs Low) June, 2005

Ending the Employment Discrimination Against the Citizens of Vancouver Island, Bowen Island and the Gulf Islands, February 20, 2005

Practices Employed by Science-based Organizations to Determine the Salary, Compensation and Promotion, and Career Paths of Research Scientists: A Literature Review. Environment Canada, February, 2003

Public Sector Technology Transfer Outside Canada and Suggestions for Improvement to Technology Transfer/IP Management from Canadian Researchers, presentation to the Federal Partners in Technology Transfer, September, 2002

Management and Leadership of Scientists: How Can We Improve?, Managing in the Modern Laboratory, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2002, pp. 23-27

Why Do We Still Not Apply What We Know About Managing R&D Personnel?, Research-Technology Management, Vol. 45, No. 2, March-April, 2002, pp. 9-11

Survey to Determine the Strategic Intellectual Property Management Framework Used by Science-Based Government Departments in Australia, Canada, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. and their Approach to the Management of Laboratory Research Notebooks for Legal Purposes, Federal Partners in Technology Transfer, July, 2002

Study of the Economic and Quality of Life Impacts of Research and Other Projects Conducted by the Mineral Technology Branch of CANMET, Natural Resources Canada, June, 2002

Getting Technlogy from the Feds: Cakewalk or Quicksand?, published in VIATec Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, November, 2002, p.9

Management and Leadership of Scientists, Presentation to the 22nd Annual Conference of the Analytical Laboratory Managers' Association: "Beyond Motivation to Engagement", October 31-November 2, 2001, League City, Texas.

Organizational Structures and Practices Used in the Management of Intellectual Property in Science Based Organizations with Geographically Separated Research Centres, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and NRC, August, 2001

Support and Encouragement of Technology Transfer in Publicly Funded R&D Institutions in Selected Countries, Federal Partners in Technology Transfer, March 2001

Impact of Canada's Patent System and Public Sector Technology Transfer System on the Growth of the Biotechnology Industry In Canada, Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee, March 2001

Technology Commercialization, Technology Transfer, Technical Entrepreneurship, Management of Technology and Intellectual Property Management Workshops, Seminars, Programs and Courses in Canada and the United States, Federal Partners in Technology Transfer, March, 2001

Impact of Canada's Stand on the Patentability of Higher Life Forms on the Growth of the Biotechnology Industry in Canada, January, 2001

Why Canada Needs a Technology Transfer Act, February 2000

Evaluation of R&D Programs and R&D Personnel: A Review of the Literature, Revised, 2000. Originally written in 1986

International Comparison of Forest Sector S&T Funding and Management in Canada, the U.S.A. Sweden and Brazil, Canadian Forest Service, July, 1999

Determination of the Feasibility of Expanding Health Canada's Health Protection Branch's Technology Transfer Activities : Pros and Cons, Health Canada, May, 1999

Identification of Opportunities and Barriers to Marketing the Products and Services of the Science Branch of the Maritines Region of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, DFO, July, 1998

Unique Features of an R&D Work Environment and Managing Research Scientists and Engineers. Rev. October, 2001, published in Knowledge, Technology & Policy, Vol. 15, No. 3, Fall, 2002, pp. 58-69

Review of Business Development Activities in Government and Private Sector Research Institutes in the UK and Holland, Defence R&D Canada, September, 1997.

Review of the R&D Management Literature Concerned with Career Management of Scientific Personnel., Rev. Feb. 1997.

Danger - Management Fad Ahead! [Published in Research-Technology Management, Jan.-Feb., 1997]

Focus and Expected Impact of Rewards, Recognition and Incentives for Research Engineers and Scientists in Canadian Government R&D Laboratories, Dec. 1996.

Principles and Practices Adopted by Canadian Science-Based Government Departments and Agencies to Facilitate Technology Transfer to the Private Sector, Industry Canada, Nov. 1996

Value of Attendance of Scientists and Engineers at Scientific/Engineering Conferences: Motivations and Recognition Factor., Nov. 1996.

Organizational Climate, Productivity and Creativity., Nov. 1996

Review of the Status of the Federal Government Policy on Ownership of Intellectual Property Arising from Procurement Contracts., Industry Canada, October, 1995.

Review of R&D Management Literature Concerned with Technology Transfer Between Government Laboratories and Industry., Industry Canada, Aug. 1996.

Unleashing Canada's Technological Tiger or Teaching the Horse to Drink, Science Council of Canada, 1992

Reasons for and the Impact of the Recent Decline in Enrolment in Technology Programs Offered by Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, College Affairs Branch, Ministry of Colleges and Universities, Government of Ontario, May, 1989

Report Card: Thirteen Years Later - the Colleges Report on Progress, Elizabeth Theriault, Dean of Technology, Sheridan College and Executive of the Heads of Technology, Ontario

Problems Faced by R&D Managers in Canadian Federal Government Laboratories, Stargate Consultants Limited, 1987, published in R&D Management, Vol. 18, No. 1, January, 1988, pp. 33-44 (Co-authored with Jean Reavley)

Other Consulting Report Titles

Preparation of Intellectual Property Policy for R&D Branch, Department of National Defence, Ottawa, Ontario, March, 1997.

Recommended Changes to the Present Superannuation Plan for Research Scientists and Engineers to Facilitate Maintaining a More Creative Scientific Work Force. Prepared by Thomas E. Clarke, for the Canadian Government Working Group on Rewards, Recognition and Incentives, sponsored by the National Research Council of Canada, July, 1996.

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