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Commentary: University Technology Transfer Has Made a Significant Contribution to Fighting COVID-19 while Ensuring Global Access
This paper reviews the response by public sector research organizations and their technology transfer offices to the COVID-19 pandemic. It shows that leading universities and technology transfer associations quickly enacted licensing principles for the duration of the pandemic to maximize availabili...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9170049/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35686822 http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2022.26829 |
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description | This paper reviews the response by public sector research organizations and their technology transfer offices to the COVID-19 pandemic. It shows that leading universities and technology transfer associations quickly enacted licensing principles for the duration of the pandemic to maximize availability and minimize delays in translating public sector research institutes' (PSRIs’) COVID-19 inventions to the public – in both the developed and the developing world – while waiving payment of royalties. It discusses examples of vaccines, drugs, diagnostics and personal protective equipment that were developed in PSRIs and swiftly deployed throughout the world on socially responsible terms. It reviews the case cited by Herder et al. (2022) and concludes that their proposed mandates are unnecessary and may inhibit the free flow of healthcare innovation from bench to bedside. |
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spelling | pubmed-91700492022-06-07 Commentary: University Technology Transfer Has Made a Significant Contribution to Fighting COVID-19 while Ensuring Global Access Stevens, Ashley J. Healthc Policy Discussion and Debate This paper reviews the response by public sector research organizations and their technology transfer offices to the COVID-19 pandemic. It shows that leading universities and technology transfer associations quickly enacted licensing principles for the duration of the pandemic to maximize availability and minimize delays in translating public sector research institutes' (PSRIs’) COVID-19 inventions to the public – in both the developed and the developing world – while waiving payment of royalties. It discusses examples of vaccines, drugs, diagnostics and personal protective equipment that were developed in PSRIs and swiftly deployed throughout the world on socially responsible terms. It reviews the case cited by Herder et al. (2022) and concludes that their proposed mandates are unnecessary and may inhibit the free flow of healthcare innovation from bench to bedside. Longwoods Publishing 2022-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9170049/ /pubmed/35686822 http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2022.26829 Text en Copyright © 2022 Longwoods Publishing https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 License, which permits rights to copy and redistribute the work for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is given proper attribution. |
spellingShingle | Discussion and Debate Stevens, Ashley J. Commentary: University Technology Transfer Has Made a Significant Contribution to Fighting COVID-19 while Ensuring Global Access |
title | Commentary: University Technology Transfer Has Made a Significant Contribution to Fighting COVID-19 while Ensuring Global Access |
title_full | Commentary: University Technology Transfer Has Made a Significant Contribution to Fighting COVID-19 while Ensuring Global Access |
title_fullStr | Commentary: University Technology Transfer Has Made a Significant Contribution to Fighting COVID-19 while Ensuring Global Access |
title_full_unstemmed | Commentary: University Technology Transfer Has Made a Significant Contribution to Fighting COVID-19 while Ensuring Global Access |
title_short | Commentary: University Technology Transfer Has Made a Significant Contribution to Fighting COVID-19 while Ensuring Global Access |
title_sort | commentary: university technology transfer has made a significant contribution to fighting covid-19 while ensuring global access |
topic | Discussion and Debate |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9170049/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35686822 http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2022.26829 |
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