May 19, 2006
2 N.C. Universities Reject Mann Deal
Two public universities in North Carolina have turned down a $100-million-plus offer from the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering that would have established a joint institute to help commercialize inventions based on their academic research.
Officials at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at North Carolina State University ended discussions with the foundation this month because its demands for rights to the universities' intellectual property were
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