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University of Delaware Looking Beyond Cash as Payoff for Innovations
July 25, 2010 | The News Journal
For years, universities across the country have commercialized invention to attract faculty talent, increase prestige and impact society. Many revolutionary products, from cancer drugs to the search engine Google, germinated on university campuses. UD created its office in 2008, becoming a national leader in science and technology development and a major job creator in the state as part of a long-term vision.
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Amid Economic Bust, a Boom at UMass
July 25, 2010 | Boston Globe
New academic buildings sprouting up all over Massachusetts are bringing much-needed jobs not only in construction, but in the potential for creating tomorrow's opportunities for growth.
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Colorado State University Creates Fund to Advance Startups
July 24, 2010 | The Coloradan
CSU is looking to advance startup companies connected to the university with a new private equity investment fund. The fund was created by Colorado State University and CSU Ventures and is managed by CSU Management Corp, a subsidiary of the private, nonprofit CSU Ventures Inc.
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Boulder: Where innovation Is Hip
July 25, 2010 | Denver Post
Boulder is one of the hottest places in the country to launch a company. Startups there received 42 percent of the venture capital invested in Colorado from 2006 to 2009, and 8,900 businesses of fewer than 20 employees call Boulder County home. Four industry clusters, software, biotechnology, natural foods and outdoor products are thriving in the Boulder area, and clean tech appears to be on a similar path.
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High-Tech a Big Draw for MSU Spinoff Firms
July 25, 2010 | Lansing State Journal
A couple of Michigan State University professors have big aspirations for some very small particles. And there are key investors willing to pour money into their work in the hope of creating jobs and spurring growth in the high-tech sector that is seen as key to Michigan's economic resurgence.
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Startups: Welcome to the Lost Decade
July 21, 2010 | Entrepreneur/Venture Beat
If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Here’s why.
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