Using the Portal
Using the Portal
- 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 |