INNOVATION T
he goal of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) of the U.S.
to translate research into new prod- ucts to advance the care of the Nation’s it must encourage that next breakthrough to enhance military health, while mak- ing effective use of that it stewards.
the federal funds
To determine what it should fund, TATRC must decide whether a new tech- nology solves an important problem and who would purchase it. While all TATRC project proposals are expected to provide detail on commercial potential, the real- ity is that many researchers do not have the knowledge or resources to assess this effectively and develop a commercializa- tion strategy on their own.
To date, DOD has had no formal pro- gram to guide and assist them. For this reason, TATRC developed a compre- hensive commercialization program for the more than 1,800 research projects
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it manages at universities, government laboratories, and high-tech start-up com- panies. It was an ambitious undertaking.
A BLANK SLATE A funded research project is only half the journey in providing a solution for Sol- diers or bringing the lessons learned from set out to develop a holistic Technology Transfer/Commercialization Program (T2/C) that would help achieve three pri- mary objectives:
- tial of new discoveries and technologies.
with investors.
impact of the precious research dollars that the center manages for the military.
It faced a blank slate in all three areas.
In 2009, TATRC started a formal pro- gram leveraging federal investment with private-sector capital to commercialize federal medical research and develop- ment (R&D) technologies. It examined
TATRC’s Technology Transfer/Commercialization Program could be a model for speeding viable
by Ronald Marchessault Jr., Dr. Charles M. Peterson, and COL Karl E. Friedl
similar efforts at the National Insti- exhaustively to reach out to groups with the right ideas and right capabilities to support these objectives. TATRC chose - or risk in sharing proprietary informa- measures of outcome
that will allow
tracking and continuous improvement of the program.
The hope is that TATRC’s pilot program will become a blueprint for others
DOD. This strategy of “convergence management” parallels the innovative approach
to fostering “convergence
science” as developed by TATRC and described in “Promoting Innovation Technology-Inspired
Problem Solving”
( , Volume 12, Issue 3).
PROJECT ASSESSMENT T2/C sought
out several strategic
partners and resources to provide the business expertise that must marry with
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