Government and University TechTransfer

"Everyone agrees, including people at Hopkins, that they’re not doing as much as they can and should to get technology into the marketplace," said Phillip Singerman, executive director of the Maryland Technology Development Corp.

"The universities have to help develop a scientific and technology literate society," he said. They also must produce the policy-makers and the international relations experts, he said.

America’s institutions of higher education are undergoing a tremendous transition as the image of an independent and objective Ivory Tower morphs into a structure more closely resembling the modern corporate research facility.

partnerships “provide an institutional structure with financial and policy incentives within which companies, universities, national laboratories and research institutes can cooperate to accelerate the development of promising technologies.”

New university-based research efforts in biodesign, nanotechnology, embedded systems and virtual manufacturing show that Arizona has stepped forward to compete in the knowledge economy, according to a recent study by Morrison Institute for Public Policy,…

"We export too many of our good ideas," he says. "The universities do a terrific job on the research side. We need to find a better way to translate those ideas into things that can be turned into business."

"We in the university are being deprived of a common way to develop technologies because we cannot form companies like we used to," said Joel B. Kirschbaum, director of the office of technology management at the University of California at San Francisco.

Ohio Governor Bob Taft has signed legislation that promotes high-tech economic development as part of an initiative to create more high-paying jobs in the state. The legislation creates incentives for investments in companies that convert research into new commercial products.

New university-based research efforts in biodesign, nanotechnology, embedded systems, and virtual manufacturing show that Arizona has stepped forward to compete in the knowledge economy, according to a newly released study by Morrison Institute for Public…

Can we have similar updates from the ongoing research projects from all of the facilities in the Inland Northwest? -Russ