April 21, 2006

Technology Transfer and Philanthropy

To the Editor:

I have read the article by Goldie Blumenstyk regarding my plan to create product-development institutes at elite research universities ("Universities Forgo Millions Over Strings Attached to a Foundation's Grants," The Chronicle, March 17). Unfortunately that article contains a number of misstatements and does not capture the essence of what we are trying to do. Should this derail conversations with prospective candidate universities, it would be unfortunate and would do