Fighting tech transfer - and winning :The Scientist [2007-01-01]


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Fighting tech transfer - and winning Chris Johnson fought his tech transfer office and lived to tell the story. The computer science professor at the University of Utah was part of a team that, several years ago, developed a software program that was a platform for designing new medical devices. He felt that making the software accessible to other programmers as an open-source program was the best way to develop the technology on a