Introduction to Denver Technology Transfer

DenTech Project Selection

Denver Technology Transfer (DenTech) is a project management firm applying a traditional economic gap analysis to select projects in the fields of renewable energy and system-wide sustainability. With projects selected by the economic gap analysis process, DenTech employs Best Practices and principals from the Project Management field to develop and re-develop technologies into viable, profitable standalone business enterprises.

Developing Technology for Profit

DenTech is specifically a 'for profit' developer. Other firms and individuals have done an excellent job of developing the non-profit space, and we respect their efforts and their dedication to insuring that some very important work is accomplished in the not for profit space. DenTech, however, believes that the majority of the best efforts in technology development are governed by a profit incentive, and DTI works diligently to make technology profitable.

DenTech’s Focus on Sustainable Economic Models

DenTech is focused on small manufacturing bases, heterogeneous economic centers with sustainable economic models and a decreased reliance on consumer spending as the indicator of economic well-being, and increased orientation toward infrastructure development as a superior long-term economic good for the nation and the community.

DenTech’s Emphasis on Re-Industrialization

Re-industrialization at DenTech is focused on a newly developed potential for relatively small and well-organized industrial bases throughout the US to have a measureable effect in local, national and world markets. The metrics for industrialization have changed significantly in recent decades; far smaller industrial groups can be responsible for much larger impacts on the world economy, primarily due to the information infrastructure and the transportation network.

A portion of the local nature of the re-industrialization effort is based in the ability of local manufacturing to gain access to intellectual capital and a wide variety of different raw materials and semi-finished goods. Re-industrialization is highly dependent on the ability of the workforce and management to quickly re-educate themselves to accomplish new manufacturing endeavors that can now change on an annual basis.

In previous centuries it was possible for generations to remain engaged in a single basic industry. Over generations this morphed however, at first by career changes that were altered each new generation, then by decades within a generation, and now by career changes that are morphing with each passing year.

An ability to restructure the workforce without extreme dislocation is only possible with an ability re-industrialize at key points in the ongoing evolution of technology and communities.

Community Hedging Against Potential System Failure

Communities need to identify systemic failure possibilities and hedge against them.

Systemic failures have proven that they can come from both natural and economic events; hurricanes, droughts, floods, earthquakes, wildfires and mudslides, are among the natural varieties. In the economic sphere, famines, inflation, industrial and financial collapses, and a whole host of events large and small can affect community well-being.

A third category exists beyond the community as a microcosm, and that is the ecosphere, where local phenomena can have national and planet wide effects. Often invisible at the local and community level, these issues can have profound world wide effects when they are added into the whole.

This becomes the basis for community action when individual impacts may be infinitesimal, but planet-wide impacts are immeasurable.

DenTech IP Policy – The Cross Licensing Agreement

DenTech’s IP policies are generally governed by the cross-licensing agreement, which permits wide propagation of technology under license to other user firms within the cross licensing group.

Cross-licensing allows firms to utilize new technology immediately under the provisions of the agreement, and insures that the firms within the cross-licensing agreement are able to innovate quickly and profitably.