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The Route From Research to Start-Up

January 18, 2007 /

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Many universities now have offices of technology transfer looking to turn research into commercial ventures at the same time that advances in information and biological science and the growth of Internet commerce has led to an explosion of entrepreneurial companies.

“We see it as transferring back to the public benefits of technology that in many cases has been developed with public money,” said Krisztina Holly, vice provost of U.S.C. who is leading a major expansion of its technology transfer program.

By JAMES FLANIGAN

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