ABSTRACT

Any new field will have its growing pains, but over the last 30 years, the biomedical arena has witnessed a particularly explosive growth, bringing a wide assortment of problems. One set of issues has concerned how to manage intellectual property in the context of collaborations and the sharing of exciting research materials-a set of problems addressed by the emerging specialty profession now known as “technology transfer.” As various subspecialties of nanotechnology and nanomedicine research further evolve, they too face the same problems, such that the researchers discover they have the same need to utilize the tools of technology transfer to facilitate their research.