IP Hall of Fame Inductees on YouTube
At the IP Business Congress in Chicago this week, inductees into the IP Hall of Fame for 2009 were interviewed by IAM Magazine reporter Sara-Jayne Adams. This series of video interviews, including inductees Dolores Hanna, Michael Kirk, and Niels Reimers, whose interview is embedded below, can now be seen on YouTube.
Born and raised in Carmel, California, Niels Reimers studied mechanical engineering at Stanford University and Oregon State University. After stints in the U.S. Navy, Anplex Co., Ltd., and Ford Aerospace, Reimers returned to Stanford University, where in 1968 he established a research management office and in 1969 the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL). The successful launching of these two offices led to his hiring by universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of California at San Francisco, all of which were seeking to establish their own offices for technology transfers.
A cofounder of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), Reimers has served as chairman of the Licensing Executive Society (U.S. and Canada) (LES). Reimers has also served as a consultant, advising universities around the world planning to open or operate their own technology transfer offices.
