Technology Transfer Assistance Project Brings VA Health Care Ideas to Life

Abstract

Clinicians and staff of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System (VA), who provide services to veterans, have invented many devices and methods for improving veterans' lives. However, translating those inventions to the market has been a challenge due to limited collaboration between the clinical inventors and the scientists, researchers, and engineers who can produce the prototypes necessary for licensing the technology. The VA Technology Transfer Program office and the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, a research laboratory with experience with developing prototypes and licensing technology, jointly developed a program called the Technology Transfer Assistance Project (TTAP) to bridge the gap between clinical inventors and prototypes ready for licensing. This paper describes TTAP and provides examples of the first inventions that were developed or enhanced through TTAP.

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“…Research on technology transfer began in the early 1970s and has evolved to include such areas as: the macro level of technology transfer with triple and quadruple helix [44][45][46][47], entrepreneurial ecosystems [48,49], and national systems of innovation [50,51]. Research on technology transfer also encompasses various areas such as diseases, medicine, and pharmacy [52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61]. There are relatively fewer publications on the methodology for evaluating technology transfer [62][63][64][65].…”