Visible Legacy Rolls Out Widgets to Speed Exploration and Discovery of University Innovations

Stanford University OTL TechFinder adds Visible Legacy widgets to help users explore breaking discoveries and find a fit faster

The "TechFinder" Technology Transfer Portal offered by the Stanford Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) now features embedded widgets from Visible Legacy. Designed to facilitate the transfer of research into solutions, the widgets visually map the connections between projects, researchers, patents and publications, empowering users to more quickly grasp the context of the innovations and expertise within Stanford’s $2 billion/year research ecosystem.

Read the full release at PR Web.

Green Buildings

I was sent an article from Forbes about Carbon Credits and government stimulus for weatherization because it (somewhat uniquely) contains a link directly to the Stanford OTL TechFinder, the portal that showcases new and interesting discoveries from Stanford.  I was surprised and pleased to see that this innovation was from a team at Santa Clara University, and Stanford handles IP licensing for SCU.  It is nice to see the Silicon Valley ecosystem working together to bring smart sensors to improve home thermal monitoring. 

Click the image to open the interactive widget, or jump directly to TechFinder.

The important point in this post is to highlight a subtle but nice thing about widgets integrated into the TechFinder website (which we are now beta testing). The red tags in the "call out" pop up box perform a smart tag search within the TechFinder site.  For example clicking "Building Efficiency", as shown above, will deliver you to a TechFinder page with three new innovtions including "Photonic panels for passive daytime cooling".  Try it by going to the page and clicking the green box, then the tag.

Now this technology sounds very cool, so to speak, and is indeed worth a look.  See the TechFinder page and read the Stanford Report linked below.

Stanford scientists develop new type of solar structure that cools buildings in full sunlight

A Stanford team has designed an entirely new form of cooling panel that works even when the sun is shining. Such a panel could vastly improve the daylight cooling of buildings, cars and other structures by radiating sunlight back into the chilly vacuum of space. Read the article at the Stanford Report.

Visit Stanford Fan Group in Visible Legacy Navigator.

Releasing new features in Visible Legacy Navigator beta 3

We've released a significant update to our Visible Legacy Navigator, beta 3. We've added the most-ask-for feature: search.  We've also enhanced the tabs, brought back the detail page, enhanced the filter buttons and node-reduction intelligence that runs behind the scenes, improved the pop-up "call outs" and cleaned up the navigation.  Look for the new yellow "got Nav" buttons which will center a topic of interest in the Navigator map.  The browser back button will save your trail!

Features are described on the Navigator Help page, but the UI is fairly intuitive so try it out and send us feedback directly or through our Help Forum.  There are upcoming user-features for both innovators and solution seekers, go ahead and sign up for a free registration to see what's new.

A thousand thanks to the team

It's amazing how inspiring a colorful wireframe and design enthusiasm can be. Our small team includes back end, front end, and content curation and can go amazingly rapidly from concept to reality. By being agile we aim to adapt and serve better the needs of our various user groups.  Thanks to Tommy, Shane, Dave, Bill, Phyllis, Becky, Scott, Will, and to our beta users and Mary for great support and feedback.

Cross-discipline collaboration can happen spontaneously when the climate is right (for newts)

New drugs, for pain in this example, can take decades of research in fundamental molecular and biological research before even considering translation to human solutions.  The labs of Stanford professors Justin Du Bois and  Sandip Biswal are working on new treatments for locating and eliminating pain, a cross-discipline collaboration facilitated by California newts found on campus ... and BioX.  The well-written Stanford News article by Amy Adams describes the interesting way this collaboration started, and look at the OTL project description ("docket") for related projects.

We're not sure which project Amy writes about, the journal article she quotes has not been picked up in the continuous VL mapping cycle.  However I can tell from the timeline that the latest project is Novel compounds as modulators of voltage-gated sodium channels for pain treatment and biomolecular tools.   This gets you close and you can read the description and applications of this new innovation, and find other innovations by keyword at the feature-rich Stanford Office of Technology Licensing "TechFinder" portal.

Note: In VL Navigator or the TechFinder widgets, look for other green-box projects and red diamond disclosures in the collaborative ecosystem to discover related innovations.

Stanford chemist joins with radiologists to locate source of pain – with help from newts

The News article summarizes, "In addition to being an example of what can happen when scientists from across campus work together, Du Bois and Biswal say the research specifically shows the role molecular scientists can play in solving biological problems. Du Bois is on the executive committee for the new Stanford Institute for Chemical Biology, which was formed specifically to encourage collaborations like this one."  We recommend you read the full article here.