What are people saying about the iBridge Network? How does it improve their work and provide results? Hear from universities, researchers, industry, and entrepreneurs...
Universities
"The iBridge Network nicely embodies the ideals of a well-designed, non-profit mechanism for aggregating, searching, and disseminating innovations from multiple research institutions. Through its Web site, it has shown a way for technology transfer professionals to substantially reduce the information and transaction barriers between dispersed innovators and end-users, making research innovations more broadly available."
"The iBridge Network makes it easier and faster to move innovations and research tools into the hands of potential partners. These new tools and materials often are not ready for commercialization, but may be the basis for exciting approaches to treating disease, protecting the environment, and generating economic success. The Network and Web site provides us with an important new channel and expanded capacity for unlocking the benefit present in the innovations emerging from our laboratories. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for example, the iBridge Network already has helped us find collaborators and developers for important gene therapy treatment of orphan diseases."
"The iBridge Network has opened up new avenues for innovations at UChicagoTech. Through the Network, relationships between researchers from other universities or industry can be built and strengthened, while investors can find new technologies to advance. The spirit of the Network’s collaboration is sure to be beneficial and exciting to all the parties involved and lead to many new opportunities."
"I should mention that I am delighted with our iBridge experience. It's been fascinating to see the orders come in from all over the world, and to realize that NeuronMetrics has potential applications beyond what we had envisioned."
"We prepared a flier and entry on iBridge for a technology related to anti cancer drugs using folate receptors. The technology is relatively new and we believe may have some promise, however, prior to iBridge we had not received much interest. With iBridge, we have already gotten a request for additional information and the requesting party is very interested in speaking with our inventors. This is a great improvement in the visibility of our technologies."
"I should mention that I am delighted with our iBridge experience. It's been fascinating to see the orders come in from all over the world, and to realize that NeuronMetrics has potential applications beyond what we had envisioned."
Researchers
"Subscribers to our Government Honors & Internship Handbook were offered the option of credit card payment via the iBridge Web site in 2006, and it was a complete success. The ease of having a payment handled electronically vs. a hard copy check was a 50% saving of administrative time. We anticipate the number of iBridge Web site users to double with the 2007 edition."
"I want to say again how happy I am about the iBridge Network mechanism. This seems ideal for NeuronMetrics and I'm very pleased we will be part of this venture."
Industry
"Through the iBridge Network, I was able to find a mouse model I was looking for. The collaboration and transparency available through the iBridge Network is crucial in driving innovation and I'll continue using it as a valued resource in my work."
"No matter how great an invention or discovery, it has little value if it can't find its way to market. Unfortunately, there are many hurdles on the road from university R&D to commercialization, not the least of which is basic awareness of new IP. The iBridgeSM Network is a much-needed open marketplace of ideas that will do much to accelerate entrepreneurship around new discoveries."
"Our economy and our standard of living are inextricably intertwined with university innovations. Unfortunately, our country’s revenue-focused, short-term outlook often interferes with the long-term possibilities of university research and collaborations with industry and entrepreneurs beyond university walls. The iBridge Network and Web site helps break down these barriers by providing low transaction costs, and a direct link between these parties that potentially will lead to ground breaking relationships and technologies, spurring revenue and fueling our economy."
"The iBridge Network provides an important additional pathway for entrepreneurs to access university innovations that may otherwise have been lost. The transparency of this pathway between entrepreneurs and researchers certainly will stimulate innovation and fuel new ventures. I look forward to tapping into the Network, building relationships, and accessing the great minds and work of university researchers. Who knows what we’ll find?"
Press
"Kauffman’s research into technology transfer from universities suggested that formal programs tended to ignore many inventions and discoveries that could have commercial potential. So the foundation set up a Web site and database, the iBridge Network, where scientists and engineers from 40 universities have posted 3,000 inventions, from software to chemical compounds."
"The site serves as a clearinghouse for innovation, featuring unique research materials posted by the participating universities, helping to facilitate the transfer of those innovations through standardized licensing and a searchable index system."
"University research labs are not supposed to be like Las Vegas: What happens in them is not supposed to stay there, yet too often that's what happens. Looking to change that situation is the Kauffman Innovation Network and its nonprofit iBridge Network, announced this morning at Network World's DEMO 07 in Palm Springs, Calif."
