U. business dean says researcher collaboration is key to USTAR

The Utah Science, Technology and Research initiative has the governor’s signature, initial funding from the Legislature and already has begun recruiting research stars.

But the biggest challenge for USTAR – a government, education and business partnership that aims to bring $4.9 billion in new research funding and more than 123,000 high-tech jobs into Utah over the next 30 years – could be winning over the more staid minds of academics.

Speaking Thursday to the MountainWest Capital Network luncheon, Jack Brittain, dean of the University of Utah’s Eccles School of Business, said commercialization of research has not traditionally been a goal of university professors.

By Bob Mims
The Salt Lake Tribune

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