NIH
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- noun
- /ɛn aɪ eɪtʃ/
- Jargon
:
síndrome del 'no inventado aquí'
- R&D teams must focus on the endpoint, not apply "NIH" to the route that gets there.
Examples
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The team's failure to consider outside solutions often stems from a strong sense of NIH that discourages them from exploring new ideas.
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In many companies, adopting an NIH mindset can stifle innovation and prevent collaboration with external partners.
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And so NIH has been dragging behind because they still haven't truly seen that notion.
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Many big pharmaceutical houses and biotech firms that have received NIH dollars also conceal their operations from the public.
Academic text (2007) -
They did on evaluating NIH and it was a pretty startling criticism.
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The most important thing I want to engage this group in is to make sure that we can be nimble and competitive in a world of healthcare reform and flat NIH budgets.
Blog text (33) -
There's nothing to argue about; we should all be on the same side requesting a study from the NIH of vaccinated kids vs. unvaccinated.
Blog text (21) -
To overcome the limitations of an NIH approach, organizations should encourage openness to innovative products developed elsewhere.
Synonyms
A refusal to use ideas or products made outside your group
How Receptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
NIH = Not Invented Here (semi-transparent) = N + I + H
The initialism is formed from the initial letters of the phrase; understanding requires knowing that phrase. [Postprocessing: changed transparency from 'transparent' to 'semi-transparent' for abbreviation]
Etymology
NIH is also an initialism for the phrase 'Not Invented Here', used when a team refuses outside ideas and prefers to make everything in-house. So calling something NIH points to a bias that blocks useful outside solutions.