Payne Philip R O
The Ohio State University, Department of Biomedical Informatics.
EGEMS (Wash DC). 2014 Jul 17;2(2):1075. doi: 10.13063/2327-9214.1075. eCollection 2014.
Ongoing transformation relative to the funding climate for healthcare research programs housed in academic and non-profit research organizations has led to a new (or renewed) emphasis on the pursuit of non-traditional sustainability models. This need is often particularly acute in the context of data management and sharing infrastructure that is developed under the auspices of such research initiatives. One option for achieving sustainability of such data management and sharing infrastructure is the pursuit of technology licensing and commercialization, in an effort to establish public-private or equivalent partnerships that sustain and even expand upon the development and dissemination of research-oriented data management and sharing technologies. However, the critical success factors for technology licensing and commercialization efforts are often unknown to individuals outside of the private sector, thus making this type of endeavor challenging to investigators in academic and non-profit settings. In response to such a gap in knowledge, this article will review a number of generalizable lessons learned from an effort undertaken at The Ohio State University to commercialize a prototypical research-oriented data management and sharing infrastructure, known as the Translational Research Informatics and Data Management (TRIAD) Grid. It is important to note that the specific emphasis of these lessons learned is on the early stages of moving a technology from the research setting into a private-sector entity and as such are particularly relevant to academic investigators interested in pursuing such activities.
学术和非营利研究组织中医疗保健研究项目的资金环境正在发生变化，这导致人们重新强调追求非传统的可持续发展模式。在这类研究项目所支持的数据管理和共享基础设施方面，这种需求往往尤为迫切。实现此类数据管理和共享基础设施可持续性的一种选择是寻求技术许可和商业化，以建立公私合营或类似的伙伴关系，从而维持甚至扩大面向研究的数据管理和共享技术的开发与传播。然而，私营部门以外的人通常并不了解技术许可和商业化努力的关键成功因素，因此对于学术和非营利机构的研究人员来说，这类努力具有挑战性。为了弥补这一知识差距，本文将回顾从俄亥俄州立大学为将一个典型的面向研究的数据管理和共享基础设施（即转化研究信息学与数据管理（TRIAD）网格）商业化所做的努力中吸取的一些普遍经验教训。需要注意的是，这些经验教训的具体重点在于将一项技术从研究环境转移到私营部门实体的早期阶段，因此对于有兴趣开展此类活动的学术研究人员尤其相关。
