New Enterprise Technology Transfer system revolutionizes tech transfer at NIH

Authors

• T Leahy
• B Bigelow
• A Wingo
• T Goodell
• F Sanghani
• S Roy
• R Holnick
• M Ha
• P Raja
• T Siriam
• J Raedels
• J Yu
• S Claxton
• A Bhardwaj
• A Dahl
• B Gallagher

Abstract

A new database, the Enterprise Technology Transfer (ETT) system, was created to serve as the system of record for all activities performed by NIH’s technology transfer offices. Data for technology transfer activities — including inventions, patents, licenses, and agreements — across all 27 NIH institutes and centers are now accessible from a single database. Over five years, over 50 people worked to bring the new database online — a process that entailed cleaning, consolidating, and migrating 7,857 data fields; 591 data tables; and 13,337,463 records. ETT was built to bring automation to processes and workflows, improve efficiency by eliminating the need to duplicate work, help support full compliance with security and policy guidelines, provide increased transparency into NIH-wide approaches for negotiating agreements and provide flexibility and support to users. When creating ETT, the team strived to make technology transfer tasks easier with features like dashboards and options to show a user a summary of the records they manage, such as agreements or patents.

ETT makes technology transfer at NIH more efficient, which helps move more inventions from the lab to market to benefit public health. The data, processes and reports housed in ETT have immense relevance to public health.

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