Business Concierge
The Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer Office (JHTT) is the University’s
intellectual property administration center, serving Johns Hopkins
researchers and inventors as a licensing, patent, and technology
commercialization office and acting as an active liaison to parties
interested in leveraging JHU research or materials for academic or
corporate endeavors. SNNLive spoke with Wesley Blakeslee, Executive
Director of Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer Office at the BioMaryland
booth at the BIO International Convention 2012 in Boston, MA.The central
Maryland region has unmatched biohealth assets from iconic federal
institutions, world-class universities, top-notch healthcare facilities,
and global and emerging bioscience companies. However, we have yet to
fully realize the return on investment from these assets. This is
largely due to the lack of a cohesive strategy in moving ideas from labs
to the market. While other regions with far less assets have
proactively addressed this opportunity by creating innovation-driven
economic development organizations and initiatives. It is time central
Maryland started to close this gap, and it is BioHealth Innovation’s
mission to complete.
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