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Columbia University’s Tech Transfer Guru, Orin Herskowitz, on Turning IT, Biotech, and Cleantech Ideas Into Businesses

Orin Herskowitz, executive director of Columbia Technology Ventures, is sipping gourmet coffee at a bistro across the street from the Manhattan Mall, but he hardly needs the caffeine to amplify his excitement about the innovation scene at his college.

Columbia Technology Ventures–the Ivy League university’s main technology-transfer initiative–has chalked up an impressive list of accomplishments ever since Herskowitz joined the office in 2006. "We get 300 faculty-submitted inventions a year," he says, about 60 percent in life sciences and the rest in other technologies. "I like to say we have everything from iPhone apps to cancer drugs," Herskowitz says.

Arlene Weintraub

Full Story: http://www.xconomy.com/new-york/2011/04/04/columbia-universitys-tech-transfer-guru-orin-herskowitz-on-turning-tech-biotech-and-clean-tech-ideas-into-businesses/

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