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SUMMARY:The Technology Database: A Tool to Foster Technology Transfer at C
 ERN
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19991214T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In its session of March 10 of this year\, the CERN Finance Com
 mittee approved a new policy for Technology Transfer at CERN. The policy d
 ocument describes a database for CERN's technology with two principal obje
 ctives: to act as a point of contact between CERN and the Member States fo
 r the flow of technology information\, and as a tool for \nthe gathering a
 nd monitoring of technology developments at CERN.\n\nIn the early part of 
 the year\, a prototype version of the database was made available on the C
 ERN web site. With increasing use and as experience has been accumulated\,
  its implementation and functionality have been progressively enhanced. \n
 \nNow regularly accessed by users at CERN\, in the Member States and world
 -wide\, at a rate of some 30 'hits' per day\, it functions as a shop-windo
 w for CERN's technological developments. In addition to its public role\, 
 the database also acts as a tool for the various \nservices concerned for 
 the tracking of CERN's intellectual property rights protection procedures.
 \n\nThis talk will describe the functionality of the database with some ba
 ckground information on its implementation. In addition\, statistics based
  on the first nine months of its use will be presented.\n\nhttp://indico.c
 ern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=a033940
LOCATION:CERN 40-S2-B01
URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=a033940
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