January 16, 2009

2 Tech-Transfer Offices Could Be Better Than One

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

The University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University are teaming up on technology transfer in a three-year experiment that will allow each to take advantage of the other's expertise in commercializing the findings of their researchers.

"This is all about getting more out of your resources," said Michael J. Cleare, executive director of the Center for Technology Transfer at Penn. "If we help one another, we will revenue share."

The two institutions have established a

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