Although most research universities offer investigators help in obtaining patents for inventions, investigators generally have few resources for scaling up non-patentable innovations, such as health behavior change interventions. This paper including HIP Investigator Dr. Andrew Quanbeck describes that in 2017, the dissemination and implementation (D & I) team at the University of Wisconsin’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) created the Evidence-to-Implementation (E2I) award to encourage the scale-up of proven, non-patentable health interventions.
The award was intended to give investigators financial support and business expertise to prepare evidence-based interventions for scale-up. The paper discusses how the Evidence-to-implementation award provides a working model for supporting late-stage translation.
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