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A Tech Transfer Sandbox for Device Companies

Stanford University is looking to take medical devices out of the tech transfer backwater through the launch of the Medical Device Network, designed to stimulate product innovation.

Though the very basis of the biotech industry, university technology transfer in medical devices has largely been ignored. That's because the method by which most device innovations are developed differs markedly from the way most biotechnology advances come about. New drugs come from extensive laboratory testing; device designs frequently result from sudden realizations by practicing physicians as to how to perform a procedure in a different way, requiring a new tool.

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