Universities Missing Opportunities to Advance Innovation – Kauffman Foundation Conference Seeks to Spur Innovation and Entrepreneurship

University laboratories hold great promise for spurring high-impact entrepreneurship but are not reaping the full benefits of their research efforts, according to researchers at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

To address the issue, the Kauffman Foundation along with the Technology Transfer Society will convene a three-day conference, Advancing Innovation and Entrepreneurship, on September 28-30, at Kauffman’s Kansas City headquarters. In attendance will be approximately 150 top academicians and economic development and technology transfer officials in the area of innovation policy and entrepreneurship.

"We all have an interest in seeing that innovations are more efficiently brought to the marketplace," said Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation. "Universities want to more swiftly commercialize discoveries from their labs. Business and industry want to capitalize on the products and services that result from breakthrough research. Venture capitalists want to pluck the most promising investment opportunities. And we at the Kauffman Foundation want to see that entrepreneurship is cultivated to the greatest extent possible."

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