For more than a decade AUTM has asked its members to share news about their successes. The result? Scores of stories about things you use every day that wouldn’t even exist without technology transfer.

AUTM is committed to providing these resources so people everywhere can understand how academic research and technology transfer have changed our way of life. The Better World Project printed resources are:

• The Better World Report Part One
  The Art of Collaboration: The Relationships That Bring Academic Innovations to the Marketplace
  Collaboration is a vital component of technology transfer. Whether among researchers, departments, or between university offices and the business community, local and national governments or nonprofit organizations, it is these working partnerships that cultivate great ideas and transform them into technologies that benefit society. You’ll read about technology that vastly improves the speed at which drugs and fluids can be administered in an emergency, how what started as a “curious compound” now provides hope to millions battling cancer, and how a researcher working on artificial limbs helped develop voice identification technology that may one day help fight terrorism.
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• The Better World Report Part Two
  Technology Transfer Works: 100 Innovations from Academic Research to Real -World Application
  These 100 innovations illustrate the many ways in which collaboration among many talented individuals leads to the success of academic technology transfer. Whether the product is a new surgical tool for glaucoma, a device that eliminates head lice in 30 minutes or biodegradable composites made of plant materials, the world is certainly a better place thanks to the hard work and determination of the many individuals involved in these featured stories.
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2007 Better World Reports
You can purchase printed copies of the 2006 Better World Reports in the AUTM Marketplace.

Or download the 2007 Editions in PDF format. The 2-volume set includes:

• The Better World Report Part One
  Building a Stronger Economy: Profiles of 25 Companies Rooted in Academic Research -- This is an economics book of a different kind, containing real-world examples of how new businesses are developed, jobs created, income generated, and problems solved, and how university research served as the catalyst. and
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Better World Report Part Two
  Technology Transfer Works: 100 Innovations from Academic Research to Real-World Application -- This collection of 100 vignettes, supplied by AUTM member institutions, offers brief descriptions about products now used in medical practice, environmental protection, agriculture, electronics, safety and many other fields.

2006 Better World Reports
You can purchase printed copies of the 2006 Better World Reports in the AUTM Marketplace.

Or download the 2006 Editions in PDF format. The 2-volume set includes:

• Technology Transfer Works: 100 Cases from Research to Realization -- A must-read for professionals in research, management, technology transfer or economic development. How one person's idea can become a household name and save lives, improve well-being and contribute to a stronger economy. and
  
  
  
• Technology Transfer Stories: 25 Innovations That Changed the World -- The in-depth stories behind 25 great innovations that have changed the way we live, this book answers the question, "Where did that come from?"