Government and University TechTransfer

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

Slate is chief executive officer of Arizona Technology Enterprises at Arizona State University, a new venture charged with taking promising technologies out of professors’ laboratories and helping companies turn them into new products and services.

"We want to create as many viable companies as we can and bring as much into the university as we can," Slate said of the venture’s goals.

America’s leading universities in crop biotechnology are cracking down on how they license corporations such as DuPont Co. and Monsanto Co. to use their patented genes and transplant techniques. By SCOTT KILMAN Staff Reporter of…

Increasingly, scientists have to know their way around a financial statement as well as their own labs.