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Veterans affairs research : actions needed to help better identify agency inventions : report to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Accountability Office, author, issuing body.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Veterans Affairs--Rules and practice--Evaluation.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Veterans Affairs--Research.
- United States. Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Veterans--Medical care--Research--United States.
- Veterans.
- Research and development projects--United States.
- Research and development projects.
- Research and development partnership--United States--Management.
- Research and development partnership.
- Public-private sector cooperation--United States.
- Public-private sector cooperation.
- Research.
- Veterans--Medical care--Research.
- Genre:
- Online resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ii, 23 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2018.
- Summary:
- VA manages a $1.9 billion research program that has produced numerous healthcare inventions, such as the pacemaker. In 2000, VA created a program to help transfer VA inventions to the private sector so that they can be commercialized and used by veterans and the public, while VA retains ownership and collects royalties. Many of VA's 3,000 researchers also hold positions at universities, which take the lead in commercializing inventions developed by these researchers. Researchers and universities are required to disclose such inventions to VA, and universities are to report on commercialization activities according to their agreements with VA. GAO was asked to examine VA's ability to ensure its ownership of inventions made with VA resources. This report examines, among other things, the extent to which VA has taken steps to ensure that (1) researchers disclose inventions and (2) universities report on commercialization activities for joint inventions. GAO recommends that VA (1) make training about invention disclosure mandatory and (2) provide universities with a standardized method for annual reporting.
- Contents:
- Background.
- VA has taken steps to educate researchers and universities about requirements but could enhance researchers' training.
- VA increased communication with universities about reporting commercialization activities but has not ensured that such activities are consistently reported.
- Conclusions.
- Recommendations for executive action.
- Agency comments.
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- "April 2018."
- "GAO-18-325."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource; title from PDF cover page (GAO, viewed July 8, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 1043550366
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