| Moving Research to Practice: NIOSH Signs Agreement With Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute |
On April 28, 2005, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Director John Howard, M.D., and Kim Zentz, Interim Executive Director of the Spokane Intercollegiate Research & Technology Institute (SIRTI), signed a Partnership Intermediary Agreement to advance the movement of NIOSH research into workplace practice. SIRTI is a Washington state-funded economic development agency that advances the growth of emerging technology companies in the inland Northwest. Under the agreement NIOSH can offer, on a nonexclusive basis, the opportunity to SIRTI to commercialize technology developed by NIOSH. SIRTI will have the right of exclusive licensing of certain technology from NIOSH if NIOSH deems that SIRTI is the best route to fulfill the commercial potential of the technology. The agreement marks the first instance of SIRTI evaluating and possibly commercializing technology from a federal agency.
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