University–industry collaborations: an industry perspective

Transmyocardial revascularization: an industry perspective.

e s t e r d a y . The concept of what is now called transmyocardial revascularization actually precedes the evolution of coronary artery bypass (CABG) surgery and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). Wearn described the myocardial microanatomy (most notably the arterioluminal sinusoids, which are poorly developed in humans but a major myocardial blood supply to reptiles) as ea...

Managing Innovations Resulting from University-industry Collaborations *

We consider a policy regime allowing academic institutions to grant industry the intellectual property rights (IPRs) over invention resulting from collaborations. If a firm plays an important role in generating an invention, the researcher offers the IPRs to the firm, as an incentive to collaborate. However, he retains certain domains where he can exploit an invention without having to apply fo...

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Key Challenges in DRM: An Industry Perspective

The desires for robust digital rights management (DRM) systems are not new to the commercial world. Indeed, industrial research, development and deployment of systems with DRM aspects (most notably crude copy-control schemes) have a long history. Yet to date the industry has not seen much commercial success from shipping these systems on top of platforms that support general-purpose computing. ...

Development of orphan vaccines: an industry perspective.

The development of vaccines against rare emerging infectious diseases is hampered by many disincentives. In the face of growing in-house expenditures associated with research and development projects in a complex legal and regulatory environment, most pharmaceutical companies prioritize their projects and streamline their product portfolio. Nevertheless, for humanitarian reasons, there is a nee...