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|Has title=Understanding Non-profit versus For-profit Medical Institutions and the Relationship between Startups and Medical CentersCommercialization of Invention 

*Our data on Medical Centers*Grant Data==General Idea== *Clinical Trial Datatrials are crucial for many biotech/life-science innovations. They generally can not take place at the same institution that conceived the invention. Clinical trials can take place at non-profit or for-profit institutions. Invention can take place in for-profit/non-profit incumbents, startups, academia, etc. Invention may be funded by grants and may result (perhaps post phase 2 trial) in patents. For-profit institutions that conduct clinical trials have market-based incentives to align the innovation paths of those they work with, non-profits do not. We should therefore expect to see startups and for-profit incumbents engage more with for-profit clinical trial institutions. We could identify causality on the for/non-profit effect if some clinical trial institutions switch status.

Catherine matched patents, grants, and clinical trials to Medical Centers. She's going to write prototype this up as a separate report for the [[Medical Centers and Grants]] project. She is currently working on putting all the data into a database.