Turning university research output into useful products such as drugs, devices and diagnostics requires skills, knowledge, and resources traditionally attributed to private industry. When it comes to intangibles such as care delivery models, informatics and algorithms, and the software behind smart wearables, the commercialization challenges are even greater. With notable exceptions, Academic Medical Centers have typically not excelled in advancing commercialization of such non-patent intellectual property (IP). We believe that this is in part because the traditional closed form university IP policy, formulated since Bayh–Dole (1980), is ill-suited to non-patent IP. In this paper, we reflect on the evolving challenges that new forms of healthcare-related discoveries, specifically non-patent IP, are placing on the traditional university intellectual property and technology transfer regime, and to offer suggestions on how universities can begin to modernize their IP policies to support the valorization of non-patent IP.

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学术医疗中心非专利知识产权的价值

将大学的研究成果转化为有用的产品，如药物、设备和诊断工具，需要传统上归属于私营企业的技能、知识和资源。当谈到护理交付模型、信息学和算法以及智能可穿戴设备背后的软件等无形资产时，商业化挑战就更大了。除了明显的例外，学术医疗中心在推动此类非专利知识产权 (IP) 的商业化方面通常并不擅长。我们认为，这部分是因为自 Bayh-Dole (1980) 以来制定的传统封闭式大学知识产权政策不适合非专利知识产权。在本文中，我们反思了新形式的医疗保健相关发现，特别是非专利知识产权所面临的不断变化的挑战，