New Tech transfer story is about the local economy

When people talk of the "town and gown" relationship, they aren’t talking about good feelings; they are talking real money: the pass-along of research expenditures in a community, entrepreneurism and new business spin-offs with higher paying jobs, the filter-down effect of more jobs for an increasingly tech-savvy labor force, and the attraction of investments in businesses with roots in the intellectual assets and property flowing like lava from campus.

By PATRICK STRICKLER

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