title: On transferring the grid technology to the biomedical community.
abstract: Natural scientists such as physicists pioneered the sharing of computing resources, which resulted in the Grid. The inter domain transfer process of this technology has been an intuitive process. Some difficulties facing the life science community can be understood using the Bozeman's "Effectiveness Model of Technology Transfer". Bozeman's and classical technology transfer approaches deal with technologies that have achieved certain stability. Grid and Cloud solutions are technologies that are still in flux. We illustrate how Grid computing creates new difficulties for the technology transfer process that are not considered in Bozeman's model. We show why the success of health Grids should be measured by the qualified scientific human capital and opportunities created, and not primarily by the market impact. With two examples we show how the Grid technology transfer theory corresponds to the reality. We conclude with recommendations that can help improve the adoption of Grid solutions into the biomedical community. These results give a more concise explanation of the difficulties most life science IT projects are facing in the late funding periods, and show some leveraging steps which can help to overcome the "vale of tears".
authors.affiliation: Regional Computing Center for Lower Saxony, University of Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Yassene
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mohammed
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Sax
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dickmann
authors.forename: Joerg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lippert
authors.forename: Juri
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Solodenko
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: von Voigt
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Otto
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Rienhoff
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D008490:Medical Informatics; D018581:Technology Transfer