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Fab Lab brings MIT tech transfer ideas to Wisconsin businesses

July 31, 2008

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Fabrication Laboratories, or Fab Labs, are an exercise in global technology sharing spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Wisconsin technical college is putting an entrepreneurial spin on them.

It's that entrepreneurial piece that has MIT's Sherry Lassiter visiting Fox Valley Technical College to learn more about the “Take it to Market” business model of FVTC's Fab Lab, and to get ideas for expanding other Fab Labs, now used in educational settings, to accommodate inventors that want to commercialize their ideas.

Joe Vanden Plas

Full Story: http://wistechnology.com/articles/4908/
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