The Portal is a joint project of MATTO and the MTTC. The development and implementation of the portal has been paid for by the MTTC, Boston University, Brandeis University, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Joslin Diabetes Center, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital, Northeastern University, The Schepens Eye Research Institute, and Tufts University.
Purpose
The Massachusetts Technology Portal is a single website where one can search easily and efficiently for over 2,000 technologies (as of July 2009) available from 23 research institutions in Massachusetts:
Baystate Health, Inc.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston Biomedical Research Institute
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
Children's Hospital Boston
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard University
Joslin Diabetes Center
Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McLean Hospital
Northeastern University
Schepens Eye Research Institute
The Immune Disease Institute
Tufts Medical Center
Tufts University
UMass Medical School
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
University of Massachusetts Lowell
The portal was developed jointly with MATTO to provide entrepreneurs and investors with a convenient tool for finding intellectual property generated across a broad spectrum of Massachusetts universities and research hospitals. While many Technology Transfer Offices have search engines for their IP on their institution's website, providing a single portal to the patents produced by our leading institutions enables users to identify the researchers, laboratories and institutions that have the inventions of interest quickly.
Using the Portal
Using the MassTechPortal
We have tried to design the portal to make it easy for you to search for technologies that are available for license from a number of institutions in Massachusetts . Please send us feedback if you have recommendations as to how we can make the portal a more useful tool for you.
You may search by one criteria or by several - it is your choice. You may want to start with a more general search and if you get too many responses then refine your search.
To do another search click on reset before you type in your new search criteria.
You may search for technologies in a specific Technology Type - the MassTechPortal uses a list of 44 technology types - a full list of the technology types may be found at the bottom of this page with descriptions of the kinds of technologies that are included.
Each technology is owned and available for license from the posting institution. Clicking the title of the invention on the results page will bring you to a page containing a detailed description of the technology and contact information for the institution managing the technology. Please use the case number listed when corresponding with the institution.
Printing - for best results set paper to print in landscape when printing.
Technology Types
The following are the TechTypes that the Portal uses.
Portal Technology Types
Classification
Areas Included
Agriculture
General
Agriculture, animal health, forestry, agricultural chemicals and related technologies
Environment
General
Recycling, hazardous and waste management, environmental management system, water treatment, pollution control and prevention, toxins, environmental remediation
Foods and Plant Sciences
General
Foods processes, fermentation, nutrition, sterilization, storage, animal/vegetable products
Health Care Surveys
General
Textiles
General
Transportation
General
Bioinformatics
Medical
Sequence analysis, modeling or drug discovery related software
Biomaterials
Medical
A bio-based material is engineering material made from substances derived from living tissues. Examples include polylactic acid, bioplastics, cornstarch etc.
Diagnostics/Biomarkers
Medical
Diagnostics, prognostics, biomarkers, patient monitoring
Drug Delivery
Medical
Drug/RNA/siRNA/Gene/Peptide delivery systems
Drug Discovery Tools
Medical
Screening Assays, Drug Targets, Methods of ID new drugs or therapeutic compounds/ DNA/proteins
Genomics/Proteomics
Medical
Anything Gene like (also see proteomics) - is this necessary? It is something most institutions have a category for so we may need to keep it. Combined this with proteomics because there will be so few
Medical Devices
Medical
Medical and surgical devices, prosthetics, med devices used for therapeutics
Medical Imaging
Medical
Medical imaging, tracking, sensing, signal processing
Microarrays
Medical
DNA, RNA, Protein, Antibody array related technologies.
Research Reagents
Medical
cell lines, monoclonal antibodies, reagents, animal models, growth factors, clones
Research Tools
Medical
cloning tools (such as PCR), methods, laboratory equipment and machines, software that helps in research
Therapeutics - Drugs
Medical
Potential drugs, small molecule, peptide, antibody, nucleic acid -based therapeutics - with novel composition of matter claims
Therapeutics - Methods
Medical
New use of known drugs, DNA, or protein based therapeutics, and non-drug therapeutic methods or treatments
Tissue Engineering
Medical
Vaccines
Medical
Vaccines and Vaccine generating/developent methods, tools
Chemical Engineering
Physical
Chemical engineering technologies
Chemistry
Physical
Catalytic, coatings, organic, physical, polymers, environmental, quantum chemistry, chemical compounds
Civil Engineering
Physical
Engineering that deals with the planning, construction, and maintenance of fixed structures or public works
Electrical Engineering
Physical
Energy
Physical
Alternative or renewable energy-related technoplogies, Hydrogen separation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaic cells, Hydroelectricity
Instrumentation
Physical
Measurement and control technologies.
Internet and Communications
Physical
Internet software or related services. Coding, networks, optical, components, wireless, telephony, VoIP
Manufacturing
Physical
Manufacturing methods, industrial processes or instrumentation, machinery, assembly, process control
Materials
Physical
Materials, coatings, ceramics, composites and electronics
Materials Diagnostics
Physical
Characterizing materials, i.e. thin films
Mechanical Engineering
Physical
Microelectronics/MEMS
Physical
All microelectronics, or methods of making microelectronics
Nanotechnology/NEMS
Physical
Anything nano - this includes NEMS, methods of making nano-structures, materials
Networking/Communications
Physical
Network monitoring, telecommunications, etc?
Photonics/Optical Systems
Physical
Anything light or optics related
Physics
Physical
Acoustics, Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Optical Physics, Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Mathematical physics
Plastics and Polymers Engineering
Physical
Processing, design, development, and manufacture of plastics and polymeric based products
Robotics/Automation
Physical
Robots, vision, hearing, sensing, artificial intelligence, etc?
Semiconductors
Physical
Sensing/Imaging
Physical
Sensor networks, detections systems, sensing during manufacture, RFID
Software/Algorithms
Physical
All programs and software
Chemical Methods/Libraries
Physical and Medical
Methods of synthesizing certain chemicals or compounds, combinatorial chem libraries
Fluidics/Microfluidics
Physical and Medical
Lab on a chip, microfluidics, and associated hoses and chutes