Kauffman spotlights university-entrepreneur link

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is co-sponsoring a conference Wednesday through Friday that focuses on how to improve the relationship between university laboratories and entrepreneurship.

The conference, "Advancing Innovation and Entrepreneurship," is co-sponsored by the Technology Transfer Society and will be at the foundation’s Kansas City headquarters. About 150 teachers and economic development and technology transfer officials are expected to attend.

The event’s objective is to better educate faculty to recognize opportunities for innovations and develop models that will foster cross-university and university-industry collaborations, the Kauffman Foundation said in a written release.

"We all have an interest in seeing that innovations are more efficiently brought to the marketplace," Kauffman Foundation CEO Carl Schramm said in the release.

"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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