Banking on Universities
| posted by Heath RowIn the university setting, technology transfer can be a major challenge. Students, researchers, and professors regularly discover and develop new technologies and innovations, but most universities don't have the staff or resources needed to find the corporate partners needed to really invest in those innovations.
Enter Utek, a company that helps publicly traded companies connect with university researchers in order to foster and further technology transfer developments. It's stake? Stock shares.
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July 24, 2006 at 12:37pm
MylesKThat's more amazing...how about corporations practically giving away software to students, universities and K-12 schools to steer the future market?
Does it happen? Check out what programs are taught at design schools, which are used at most advertising agencies and then compare those to the ones preferred by workers who are fluent with all of them. Then ask them which are the easiest and quickest to use--can you see the implications in revenue vs. profit?