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 ini...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of technology commercialization on researcher practice and productivity at U.S. universities. Using data drawn from licensing contract documents and databases of university-industry linkages and faculty research output, the study findings suggest that the common practice of licensing technologies exclusively to singular firms may have a...

Solar power presents the opportunity for a revolution in worldwide energy generation. However, photovoltaics have yet to be the source of more than 0.1% of the energy generated worldwide. Our research is centered on developing technologies aimed at decreasing the cost/power output of III-V group photovoltaic cells. III-V photovoltaic devices consistently rank as some of the highest in efficienc...

Innovation, particularly in technology development, is a crucial aspect of nanotechnology R&D and, although several approaches to effective innovation management exist, organizational structures that promote knowledge exchange have been found to be most effect in supporting new and emerging technologies. This paper discusses Integrated Knowledge Networks (IKNs) and evaluates its use within nano...

—As researches of on scientific technology are considered as a pivotal factor of a national competitiveness, the central and local governments have extended assistance for commercialization-linked technology development (CLTD) and accordingly various outputs are coming out now. However, the valuable findings from painstaking researches are not sufficiently distributed to or shared with other go...

Achieving Continuous Manufacturing for Final Dosage Formation: 1 Challenges and How to Meet Them 2 3 May 20-21, 2014 Continuous Symposium 4 5 Stephen Byrn*, Maricio Futran**, Hayden Thomas***, Eric Jayjock**, Nicola Maron, 6 Robert F. Meyer, Allan S. Myerson, Michael P. Thien, and Bernhardt L. Trout 7 8 * Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, Purdue University 9 **Janssen Supply Group...

Digital libraries are large, organized collections of information objects. Well-designed digital library software has the potential to enable nonspecialist people to conceive, assemble, build, and disseminate new information collections. This has great social import because, by democratizing information dissemination, it provides a counterbalance to disturbing commercialization initiatives in t...

Providing green energy for human consumption has become a main goal of industry and research in recent decades. Photovoltaic technology is a main candidate for this aim but it requires price reduction and efficiency increase to enable large scale commercialization. To comply with the cost effectiveness, the cells can be made very thin to reduce material consumption and materials with well-estab...

In "Buying Health: the Costs of Commercialization and an Alternative Philosophy", Larry R. Churchill and Shelley C. Churchill discuss the commercialization of health and, in particular, the commercialization of nutrition. In this commentary on their article, I draw a connection between Churchill and Churchill's account of the commercialization of nutrition and Michael Pollan's critique of "nutr...