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David Allen
Associate Vice President, University of Colorado Boulder

David Allen became the University of Colorados assistant vice president for technology transfer in February 2002. In June 2003 he was promoted to associate vice president. In this role, he is responsible for intellectual property and technology licensing matters across the three campuses. Allens primary objective is to continue the momentum that has led to a turnaround of the CU technology transfer operation so it ranks among the top United States technology transfer offices.

Previously, Allen was the assistant vice president for technology partnerships at the Ohio State University. In this role, he had responsibility for the offices for technology licensing, technology partnerships and business and industry contracts. Before coming to Ohio State in 1997, Allen was assistant vice president for technology and economic development at Ohio University in Athens.

From 1991 to 1997, he managed two Ohio University technology development programs: the Innovation Center program and the technology transfer office. Additional duties were assumed from July 1992 to October 1995 when he was the director of Ohio University's Edison Biotechnology Institute. Prior to working at Ohio University, he was a public policy and business administration professor at Pennsylvania State University in University Park. While at Penn State he was a consultant to a seed venture capital firm. He earned his doctorate in political economy at Indiana University, Bloomington in 1980.