Not Invented Here (NIH) is a term used to describe a persistent corporate or institutional culture that either intentionally or unintentionally avoids using previously performed research or knowledge because the research and developed knowledge was not originally executed in-house.

The federal agency responsible for overseeing government-sponsored biomedical research. It is divided into 24 institutes and research centers.

an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government

National Institute of Health

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Hypnosis & Neuro Linguistic Programming (USA)

Not Invented Here. The attitude of resisting anything that was not invented or derived by the using organization or person