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Open Innovation Alliances Innovation Operations & Analytics

Large scale alliances to develop and translate cutting edge technology is a Innovation Operations consists of three groups – Intellectual Property,
key priority and long-standing Mass General Brigham competency. Focused Transactional Affairs, and Finance, charged with supporting the innovator’s
on specific therapeutic and diagnostic opportunities these collaborative pathway to commercialization. Their range of services include processing
alliances pair faculty and system capabilities with complementary Invention Disclosures, working with Licensing Managers to protect
corporate resources. intellectual property through patent filings, prosecution management,
executing agreements and managing hundreds of millions of dollars of
Alliance partners include companies such as Bayer, Boston Scientific, revenue invoicing, collections and distributions.
Canon, Pfizer and Sanofi. These alliances are part of a broad open
innovation strategy that integrates faculty from one or more of the The Intellectual Property (IP) team works with innovators on their
hospitals within Mass General Brigham and company staff to leverage disclosures to ensure they are ready for Licensing review and patent
the unique capabilities of the respective parties and create breakthrough protection. Once determined to file, they set IP strategy, file world-
technologies to help patients. wide patents on behalf of the innovators, manage the system’s more
than $12 million annual patent budget, and ensure that the necessary
The Innovation Fellows program is a central element of this effort. Its goal documentation is in place to support patent filings and timelines.
is to place junior system faculty in industry experiential settings on a full
or part- time basis for between six and eighteen months. It also, in limited The Transactional Affairs Group (TAG) is the core function to negotiate
circumstances, arranges for company employees to be posted within Material Transfer, Confidentiality and Data Use agreements. TAG
System labs. associates process thousands of contracts annually under specified
turnaround times. They work closely with the innovators to get agreements
For more information, please contact: in place.
Seema Basu, PhD, Market Sector Leader, ssbasu@partners.org
The Finance team is responsible for ensuring that the financial obligations
of licensees are compliant, and payments to Mass General Brigham and
inventors are correct and paid in a timely manner. The team is responsible
for thousands of annual disbursements as well as invoicing, collecting
Collaborative alliances pair faculty and distributing.
and system capabilities with

complementary corporate resources.