Massachusetts High Technology Council Inc

“The Massachusetts High Technology Council is a non-profit, non-partisan corporation whose membership is comprised of respected business leaders of Massachusetts high technology and high-value-added service companies.”

“Members elect the board of directors at the annual meeting. The officers are elected by those elected directors during the same annual meeting.”

“Through membership in the Council, our members are able to accomplish one of their most important external responsibilities in an efficient and cost-effective way. That responsibility is to help make Massachusetts the world's most attractive place in which to live and work, and in which to create, operate and expand high technology businesses. Unique opportunity to help shape the business climate in Massachusetts by helping set our annual public policy objectives and through collective representation on those objectives.”

“Form 990 is not reviewed with the governing body before it is filed. The 990 is reviewed by the president, christopher anderson, before it is filed”

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“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Technology Transfer & Incubation - The Council, working with research institutions, technology firms, business incubators, investment professionals, and the legal community, is exploring targeted methods to grow the New England economy by enhancing the pipeline of technology commercialization and new venture information through its Technology Transfer & Incubation Team (TTI). Led by Bill Gelnaw, Managing Partner, and Karen Copenhaver, Partner at Choate, the Team is developing a web-based set of annotations to local university-based technology transfer agreements to highlight thorny issues and recommend ways of resolving them efficiently to help speed the commercialization process across sectors and the region. It is also working with regional stakeholders to speed the commercialization process by developing annotated licensing terms to save time and money throughout the technology licensing process. It also played a leading role in securing Congressional support for the America COMPETES Act and supports Innovate America Act, both of which increase federal R&D funding.The Team hosted a November 2010 meeting with more than a dozen local law and venture capital firms and a subsequent drafting meeting of a dozen Council members and partners, including representatives from state and national technology transfer associations. Among the issues the Team is currently annotating are: scope of IP rights and follow-up on IP; reserved rights, conflict of interest, indemnification, warranties/background rights; diligence; sub-licensing (approval rights); insurance; publication (confidentiality); control of patent prosecution; assignment of transfer rights; and federal funding impact. The draft will then be submitted to practitioners for comment and feedback that will be considered and incorporated into a final version. The broader goals of the TTI Team are to:Enhance New Englands stature as the worlds preeminent location for innovation and commercialization of new technology Grow the New England economy by facilitating the development of new technology enterpriseFoster a collaborative spirit among universities, colleges, innovators, investment professionals, the legal community and other stakeholders to improve the speed, quality and volume of new technologies transforming into successful New England venturesConnect and involve new businesses with the region to foster corporate citizenshipEncourage entrepreneurial efforts of faculty, students and other innovators which will result in serial entrepreneurship and new business development OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Clean Energy & Sustainability - * Public Policy *The Councils Clean Energy and Sustainability Team, chaired by Mitch Tyson, Chairman of Advanced Electron Beams, promotes federal, regional, and state policies that: improve energy efficiency, sustainability, and the environment; encourage domestic energy production and support US energy security; strengthen the regions competitiveness, job growth, and leadership in clean energy, and reduce or limit costs to businesses and consumers by avoiding unsustainable or duplicative taxpayer investments. Recent policy outreach includes support of a federal energy-climate bill to: Establish a predictable, market-based mechanism to set a national price on carbonEliminate oil, gas, and coal industry preference subsidies that are not market-based and put clean energy at a competitive disadvantageSignificantly increase investments in clean energy R&D and infrastructure The Team is poised to offer strategic and tactical support on more micro "fallback" federal and state energy policy proposals in the wake of inaction on a comprehensive energy-climate bill. These potentially include targeted support for the extension of select federal tax credits and incentives, federal funding for ARPA-E and a regional clean energy consortia, and efforts to retain the current definition of renewable energy as it applies to the Commonwealth's r”