A 1,000-Acre Incubator for Research and Business

N.C. State's 'Centennial Campus' generates patents -- and fears about corporate ties

In B. Jayant Baliga's office here, gold-colored copies of patent certificates, mounted on plaques, cover three walls up to the ceiling.

Mr. Baliga, a professor of electrical engineering at North Carolina State University, has earned 40 patents for the institution since 1991. That's when he moved to the university's research park, Centennial Campus, where he has done research financed by -- and has taken direction from -- companies that include Daimler-Benz, Ford, and

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