The goal of the research and technology transfer component is to
provide a permanent infrastructure to promote research and technology
transfer in security and medical sensor systems. This is built upon
the success of the Sensor
CAT (Center for Advanced Technology) and Stony Brook’s
Office of Technology Licensing and Industry Relations (OTLIR).
Our research partners include Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
and the industry partners of the Sensor CAT. The major proposed
activity in this component is the establishment of searchable, web-based,
Research Database to serve the partners of the Sensor Consortium;
and an annual Technology Transfer Conference that the Sensor Consortium
will cosponsor with the OTLIR.
The
Research Database will be useful for our industrial partners seeking
expertise in a specific area from the Research partners of the Sensor
Consortium. Our vision is that the Research Database will allow
companies, especially small businesses without much R&D facility,
to utilize the research capabilities of the research partners of
the Sensor Consortium. Say a small company developing a medical
sensor needs to deploy non-linear noise reduction technique to filter
out noises in the signal could use the Research Database to identify
experts in this area. If there is a match between the need of the
company and, say a faculty member at Stony Brook or a research group
at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a proposal can be submitted to
the Sensor CAT who would consider supporting the project.
The
Sensor Consortium will also work with the OTLIR to promote technology
transfer. It can be a liaison between our research and industrial
partners and Stony Brook’s OTLIR. When a promising idea or
solution is developed by our research partners, the Sensor Consortium
will facilitate talks between the inventor and the OTLIR. Furthermore,
the Sensor Consortium will cosponsor an annual Technology Transfer
Conference with the OTLIR. In this conference, research projects
at Stony Brook and BNL will be showed-cased to our industrial partners
to stimulate talks of Technology Transfer.
The
partners of the Research and Technology Transfer components are:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Stony Brook’s Sensor
CAT and its affiliated industrial sponsors; and Stony Brook’s
OTLIR (Office of Technology Licensing and Industry Relations). The
scientific staff of BNL, along with the faculty of Stony Brook,
will form the research backbone of the Sensor Consortium. It will
support the Technology E-Team Program by providing a large pool
of scientists and experts to give technical guidance to the E-Teams.
With the establishment of the Research and Funding Database and
facilitation of the Sensor CAT, these faculty and scientists will
also have the opportunity to join forces with our industrial partners
to pursue research and development projects in national security
and medical sensor systems.
Sensor
CAT and the OTLIR are critical partners of the Technology Transfer
component. Sensor CAT with its large number of industrial clients
will act as a liaison between the Sensor Consortium and the industrial
community. It will assist in the solicitation of RFPs from its industrial
clients for the Technology E-Team Program, it will help its industrial
partners to identify expertise from Stony Brook’s faculty
and BNL’s scientific staff, and it will be a liaison between
the Sensor Consortium and the small and women/minority owned and
managed business community; it will also assist individuals interested
in starting his/her own business. The Sensor Consortium will work
with the OTLIR to promote and assist technology transfer to the
commercial sectors. An annual Technology Transfer conference will
be cosponsored among the Sensor CAT, Sensor Consortium and the OTLIR.
The
major proposed activity in this component is the establishment of
searchable, web-based, Research and Funding Databases to serve the
partners of the Sensor Consortium; and an annual Technology Transfer
Conference that the Sensor Consortium will cosponsor with the OTLIR.
The Research Database will be useful for our industrial
partners seeking expertise in a specific area from the Research
partners of the Sensor Consortium. Our vision is that the Research
Database will allow companies, especially small businesses without
much R&D facility, to utilize the research capabilities of the
research partners of the Sensor Consortium. Say a small company
developing a medical sensor needs to deploy non-linear noise reduction
technique to filter out noises in the signal could use the Research
Database to identify experts in this area. If there is a match between
the need of the company and, say a faculty member at Stony Brook
or a research group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a proposal
can be submitted to Sensor CAT who would consider supporting the
project.
The Funding
Database will be useful to our research partners seeking
research funding to develop a specific idea or product. This database
will provide a search engine to link to all federal funding agencies.
It will provide a centralized, searchable, web-based resource for
our research partners.
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