Having worked and studied in a few universities, man, this would be awesome if it were true to my experience. Trying to get the patent attorneys, the tech tran

Having worked and studied in a few universities, man, this would be awesome if it were true to my experience. Trying to get the patent attorneys, the tech transfer office, or the budget office to do literally anything is like trying to walk on the ceiling. It would take months just to get a consult with the tech transfer office to even see if they could be bothered to talk to the lawyers. For real, at one school the budget office for patents and the like for the whole university was staffed by one part-time woman very close to retirement who could barely rubber stamp anything with what little time she had in a day. As for grants, man, again, it's a dog fight out there to even get anything to begin with. Unless your PI has fair/good connections in the grant funding agencies, you're gonna have a rough time. I've been in a few labs that have tried the corporate funding route and it's never really worked out. They all want a result, not a real study that can fail, and they want it in 3 months, and they want it for a tenth of the cost it would actually take, eve with very poorly paid grad students. Industry grants do happen, but man, they almost never make anything 'real' happen, it's mostly just a headache.