The iBridge Network™
University research results drive societal advances. The University of Arizona can catalyze those advances through its strengths in optics, medicine and life sciences, computer science, agriculture, technology in the arts, information technology, and entrepreneurship training. The iBridge™ Network speeds the process by making UA technologies and other research assets available to organizations and individuals for development, application and societal benefit.
Snapshot
- The iBridge Network is a program of the Kauffman Innovation Network, Inc., an initiative of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The iBridge Web site is powered by Flintbox™, a computer technology developed at the University of British Columbia.
- The iBridge™ Network is a Web-based network through which researchers at multiple universities can efficiently disseminate their results, methods, tools, and technologies.
- The iBridge Network aims to expand the number and scope of collaborations built around university research - a critical step in fostering entrepreneurial ventures that convert discoveries to applications.
- The iBridge Network complements technology transfer protocols in a manner consistent with university policies and supplements, rather than replaces, existing distribution channels.
Who Uses The iBridge Network™?
- University Researchers create research results, methods, tools, and technologies and post them through the iBridge Web site.
- University Technology Managers help assess the commercial impact of research assets, consolidate intellectual property rights when appropriate, and facilitate the transfer of research assets to the end-user through posting on the iBridge Network.
- End-Users, such as companies, research organizations, and entrepreneurial individuals, use the iBridge Web site to access research assets, associated artifacts, or license templates posted there.
Benefits
- University researchers benefit by using a simple process to make research results, methods, tools, and technologies directly available to companies and colleagues worldwide. Researchers also gain a single point of access to research assets from colleagues at all the participating universities.
- Companies, colleagues, and entrepreneurial individuals benefit by uniform, ready access to research results from multiple universities and research groups.
- University technology transfer offices standardize and simplify the process by which researchers can disseminate research assets while still working with the OTT.
Pilot Institutions
The pilot phase of the iBridge Network is being implemented at the University of Arizona, Cornell University, University of Chicago, University of Kansas including the KU Medical Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Wisconsin-Madison through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and Washington University in St. Louis.
Other universities will join as the pilot phase matures.
Get Started
- Visit the iBridge Web site at www.ibridgenetwork.org, and explore postings already there from the UA and other pilot universities.
- Identify research results, methods, tools, and technologies from your group that might be appropriate for dissemination through the iBridge Network.
- University of Arizona researchers should contact the Office of Technology Transfer, 520-626-4604, and request an iBridge account in their name.
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Last modified: November 03, 2007.
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