WORKING WITH US Click through Edinburgh Research and Innovation’s online licensing system is a quick and easy way to license software and materials from the University


Edinburgh Research and Innovation (ERI)’s Click-thru Licensing System is building a significant portfolio of software and materials that are available to license at the click of a button. With standard licence agreements and an online payment facility, the freely-accessible and easy-to-use web- based licensing system makes it easier for businesses to source software and materials at the University of Edinburgh. A prime example of the type of opportunity available is a software system developed by Elizabeth McDowell and her IT team within the University’s Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility (WTCRF) to centralise their study management data, manage resource bookings and improve the reporting process.


This system, called CRFManager™ (Clinical Research Facility Manager), helps the WTCRF better organise its data in Edinburgh by putting everything relating to a clinical study in one place and providing instantaneous reports of the key metrics they need. The resulting data integrity is much improved and a notification system keeps administrative staff alerted to information that requires follow-up. In February 2009, Elizabeth contacted


“Easy-to-use web- based licensing system makes it easier for businesses to source software and materials”


ERI for support as she had received enquiries from several external clinical research facilities that wanted a licence and maintenance contract for the software package. By June that year, ERI had agreed terms with the first licensee – University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust. Elizabeth added: “ERI helped us put together licence agreements for the


software and manage the site payments, which are collected annually. I wouldn’t like to have sold our system without this kind of legal advice and support with contracts.” This opportunity was then developed into a click-thru opportunity, with a standard licensing agreement, and is now available to license online via ERI’s Click-thru Licensing System. The CRFManager™ software is the biggest success on the click-thru system, having been licensed to 14 NHS Trusts so far, and is used in several other local studies and sites. John McCourt, Clinical Informatics Manager at Dublin Centre for Clinical Research, who has implemented the CRFManager™ software at four separate clinical research facilities in Dublin, said: “The software has lived up to and, indeed, surpassed our expectations when we decided to license it from Edinburgh. The whole procurement process from the click- thru licensing system to final implementation and support has run without any problems.”


To find out more about the technology opportunities that are currently available to license online, visit the ERI Click-thru Licensing System: http://licensing.research-innovation.ed.ac.uk


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