History of Technology Transfer at BBN
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BBN's basic business since its founding has been contract consulting, research, and development. This article describes BBN's activities from 1948-1989 to transfer technology and intellectual property from its basic sponsored consulting, research, and development business into a variety of commercial and other products and services.
[1] 30 Unless otherwise noted, all years referred to herein are BBN fiscal years, which ran from 1 July of the prior calendar year through 30 June of the referenced year.
[2] A more complete version of this article— to include the historically recent "1990–1997: Emergence of the Internet and Acquisition by GTE"— will be published in A Culture of Innovation, D. Walden and R. Nickerson, eds.
[3] BBN Annual Report 1965, BBN, Cambridge, Mass., 1965.
[4] BBN Annual Report 1962, BBN, Cambridge, Mass., 1962.
[5] A. Okun, Special Study of BBN, Hoppin Bros. & Co., 30 Aug. 1967.
[6] BBN Annual Report 1966, BBN, Cambridge, Mass., 1966.
[7] BBN Annual Report 1969, BBN, Cambridge, Mass., 1969.
[8] BBN Annual Report 1987, BBN, Cambridge, Mass., 1987.
Index Terms:
technology transfer, intellectual property, commercialization, licensing, Medinet, Telcomp, Telenet, Prototech, RS/1
Citation:
Stephen Levy, "History of Technology Transfer at BBN," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 30-38, Apr.-June 2005, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2005.28
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