The CSRL
The Corporate Sponsored Research & Licensing (CSRL) serves as the primary interface between the hospital and the private sector. It is responsible for negotiating and executing agreements to access materials, funding, and resources at MGH. It also reviews all consulting agreements by MGH staff and serves as an in-house resource on all facets of relations with industry.
One of the main debates is about the goal of the group. A big question is: Should the goal be to raise as much money as possible for research? Others want the goal to be to speed innovations to market for the benefit of patients, and to help researchers (West & Ashiya, 2004). These goals, clearly, are not necessarily going to be in harmony with one another, and that creates conflict. There is uncertain guidance about which goal should take precedence. Thus, the larger tension between the commercialization of technology and the hospital's mission to improve patient care and advance medicine through research comes into being.
The measures of the CSRL office's success are also a subject of debate. The office has helped increase technology license agreements and start new companies, and it has also brought in a great deal of revenue from sponsored research and license royalties. However, some argue that the office is not doing enough to market the hospital's discoveries and generate revenue from other parts of the industry. There is a perception among some stakeholders that the hospital should be making more money from its research (West & Ashiya, 2004).
The case study also discusses the impact of conflict-of-interest policies on technology development and commercialization. There are concerns that the hospitals conflict-of-interest rules might inhibit innovation. These rules are designed to prevent situations where the personal/financial interests of researchers could compromise the integrity of their research. However, there is a question about whether these rules should be changed to facilitate greater commercialization of the hospital's technologies. This issue unveils tension between the need to maintain the integrity of academic research and the capitalistic desire to turn this research into commercial products that can generate revenue for the hospital.
References
West, J. & Ashiya, M. (2004). Technology Commercialization at the Massachusetts General Hospital. HBS.
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