A winning equation. Colorado universities are making major strides in successfully transferring technological innovations to the private sector.

Researchers Robert Nelson and Matt Seefeldt work in a sparsely furnished laboratory. Their focus is on a small picnic cooler holding a metal cylinder suspended in water and connected to tubes and valves.

The two are the only employees, in addition to the chief executive, at the startup company spun out of the University of Colorado.

"A lot of great ideas come out of academia. It’s not the type of thinking corporate America can pull off," said Nelson, who works at Lafayette-based BaroFold Inc.

By Kimberly S. Johnson
Denver Post Staff Writer

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