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NASA spin-off technologies are commercial products and services which have been developed with the help of NASA, through research and development contracts, such as Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or STTR awards, licensing of NASA patents, use of NASA facilities, technical assistance from NASA personnel, or data from NASA research.
University spin-offs (also known as university spin-outs) [1] [2] are companies that transform technological inventions developed from university research that are likely to remain unexploited otherwise. [3] They are a subcategory of research spin-offs. Prominent examples of university spin-offs are Genentech, Crucell, Lycos and Plastic Logic.
Government spin-off, civilian goods which are the result of military or governmental research NASA spin-off, a spin-off of technology that has been commercialized through NASA funding, research, licensing, facilities, or assistance; Research spin-off, a company founded on the findings of a research group at a university
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) definition of "spin-off" is more precise. Spin-offs occur when the equity owners of the parent company receive equity stakes in the newly spun off company. [6] For example, when Agilent Technologies was spun off from Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 1999, the stockholders of HP received ...
ISRO spin-off technologies are commercial products and services which have been developed with the help of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), through research and development, licensing of ISRO patents, use of ISRO facilities, technical assistance from ISRO personnel, or data from ISRO research.
A research spin-off is a company that falls into at least one of the four following categories: [1] Companies that have an Equity investment from a national library or university; Companies that license technology from a public research institute or university; Companies that consider a university or public sector employee to have been a founder
Technology transfer (TT), also called transfer of technology (TOT), is the process of transferring (disseminating) technology from the person or organization that owns or holds it to another person or organization, in an attempt to transform inventions and scientific outcomes into new products and services that benefit society.
Agilent Technologies was created in 1999 as a spin-off of several business units of Hewlett-Packard [12] including test & measurement, optics, instrumentation and chemical analysis, electronic components, and medical equipment product lines.