On transferring the grid technology to the biomedical community

authored by

Yassene Mohammed, Ulrich Sax, Frank Dickmann, Joerg Lippert, Juri Solodenko, Gabriele Von Voigt, Matthew Smith, Otto Rienhoff

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".

Organisation(s)

Institute of Data Science

External Organisation(s)

University of Amsterdam
University of Göttingen
Bayer AG

Type

Conference contribution

Pages

28-39

No. of pages

12

Publication date

2010

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biomedical Engineering, Health Informatics, Health Information Management

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-583-9-28 (Access: Closed)