I think so much training is needed on ways to optimize innovation capture, commercialization of tech and IP that you can play a really important role there (with innovation workshops, IP 101 workshops/brown bag lunches, and with forming a patient committee or keeping an existing one on a rationale track, etc.). That doesn't have to be formally called "teaching" and I suspect the University will welcome that kind of outreach since it will impact their bottom line. I very much feel your pain about the silo issue though. It's problem that plagues learning in Universities and corporations. Renaissance people have a hard time in this world :).