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This is definitely a win-win situation for both the commercial sector and NASA. ...
NASA needs you to transfer technologies
Nicolas Mokhoff
9/9/2010 3:46 PM EDT
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- NASA wants to transfer NASA-owned technologies into the U.S. marketplace and is soliciting potential partners to provide no-cost brokerage services for intellectual property transactions, such as patent brokering.
The call for information builds on a pilot program by several NASA field centers, started in 2008, to commercialize NASA-funded technologies.
"Technology transfer always has been an important objective of America's aeronautics and space program," said NASA Chief Technologist Bobby Braun in a presentation in NASA Washington headquarters. "We want to accelerate the agency's efforts to get groundbreaking technologies and innovations from development efforts out into commercial markets. We're asking for information from broker services on how they might help us do this, without any cost to the taxpayer."
The request for information is posted on the FedBizOps Web site.
NASA is looking to industry for input on what form these technology transaction services might take, including ideas such as public auctions, Internet-based agreements or other innovative concepts. Partners would be compensated through a percentage of licensing revenues from any transaction they broker.
NASA believes the program will continue efforts to ensure easier access to NASA-patented technology by U.S. private sector organizations while identifying and developing complementary technology efforts across NASA's centers.
An example of successfully brokering NASA technology through a no-cost brokerage partnership was the exclusive license for the Hilbert-Huang Transform, composed of 10 U.S. patents and one domestic patent application, which was part of a lot auctioned by Ocean Tomo Federal Services in October 2008.
The agreement with DynaDx Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.), licensed the Hilbert-Huang Transform, a NASA technology used to analyze nonlinear, non-stationary signals. The technology was available to the medical community to help in the diagnosis and prediction of syndromes that affect the brain, such as stroke, dementia and traumatic brain injury.
An upcoming EE Times special issue on medical electronics will elaborate on these NASA technologies for private medicine.
Read about NASA's Space technology which could transfer to commercial use here.
The call for information builds on a pilot program by several NASA field centers, started in 2008, to commercialize NASA-funded technologies.
"Technology transfer always has been an important objective of America's aeronautics and space program," said NASA Chief Technologist Bobby Braun in a presentation in NASA Washington headquarters. "We want to accelerate the agency's efforts to get groundbreaking technologies and innovations from development efforts out into commercial markets. We're asking for information from broker services on how they might help us do this, without any cost to the taxpayer."
The request for information is posted on the FedBizOps Web site.
NASA is looking to industry for input on what form these technology transaction services might take, including ideas such as public auctions, Internet-based agreements or other innovative concepts. Partners would be compensated through a percentage of licensing revenues from any transaction they broker.
NASA believes the program will continue efforts to ensure easier access to NASA-patented technology by U.S. private sector organizations while identifying and developing complementary technology efforts across NASA's centers.
An example of successfully brokering NASA technology through a no-cost brokerage partnership was the exclusive license for the Hilbert-Huang Transform, composed of 10 U.S. patents and one domestic patent application, which was part of a lot auctioned by Ocean Tomo Federal Services in October 2008.
The agreement with DynaDx Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.), licensed the Hilbert-Huang Transform, a NASA technology used to analyze nonlinear, non-stationary signals. The technology was available to the medical community to help in the diagnosis and prediction of syndromes that affect the brain, such as stroke, dementia and traumatic brain injury.
An upcoming EE Times special issue on medical electronics will elaborate on these NASA technologies for private medicine.
Read about NASA's Space technology which could transfer to commercial use here.
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Nic_Mokhoff
9/9/2010 4:06 PM EDT
Some of our most commonly used products have been produced in the Space program since its start. There are plenty of technologies NASA has that would do great in the commercial market. Any takers?
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elctrnx_lyf
9/10/2010 10:35 AM EDT
Mokhoff, I definitely agree with your comment. Even in the university I have learned that many technologies were developed as part of the research projects done by department of defense. And lot of such technologies were shared into the commercial market and mostly embraced into many telecommunication networks. This move by Intel is really welcome since many such technologies will be available commercially and may be used in life saving medical products.
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chanj
9/10/2010 1:15 PM EDT
It is indeed a good news to the commercial sector. Different kind of products will be created through the IP and the society will benefit from them. If majority of the IPs are capitalized effectively, NASA will be able to continue funding different projects for future innovation. It sounds to me a win-win situation, isn't it?
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yalanand
9/11/2010 6:23 AM EDT
This is welcome news. Definitely this will help technology to tricklw down to the masses. Kudos NASA.
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elctrnx_lyf
9/11/2010 1:43 PM EDT
This is definitely a win-win situation for both the commercial sector and NASA. The new funds generated will be useful to support the future research at NASA. I'm sure there are many technologies which were were developed as part of defense and aerospace research will applied to the computing technologies for the different industries like telecommunication and medical products that can impact the human life.
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Bob Lacovara
9/13/2010 4:01 PM EDT
Just out of curiosity, why does anyone in the States have to pay for this technology? Wasn't the bulk of it developed with NASA dollars? That is to say, public funds? So we all paid for it once already. Presumably, someone who applies the technology would make life incrementally better for all of us, as well.
Why not pay someone to package the technology, a critical task, and put it out to qualified and interested parties? "Qualified" could mean merely that the company isn't a known shill for terrorists, and "interested" means just what it says...
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