By Laura

Sequoia Capital’s Jim Goetz might have declined the Governor’s offer at today’s CED Tech Venture Conference to move to North Carolina, but the world’s top venture capitalist according to Forbes had no qualms naming the Triangle as the second most important area of the United States behind his native Silicon Valley. And if the forward-thinking innovation happening within the universities, startups and Research Triangle Park continues, he thinks we could snag that top spot in coming decades. “You have unfair advantages in the state, with terrific school systems and leadership and important fields that will eventually go global,” he told a...

Editor’s note: Laura Schoppe is president of Fuentek. Technology transfer programs at major research universities and other large institutions vary greatly in their technology transfer structure, both at the campus level and (for large, multi-campus systems) at the institutional level. This paper discusses best practices for implementing (1) centralization within a single campus, (2) coordination across multiple campuses, and (3) consolidation across multiple campuses. Although written with a focus on universities, the principles and practices are applicable to federal laboratories as well. Centralization on Campus With more than 15 years of experience in intellectual property (IP) and technology management,...

Editor’s note: WRAL Local Tech Wire publishes selected stories from the news services of various universities as part of its UniversityTech coverage. LTW is enhancing significantly its coverage of scientific and research efforts at regional universities where many of tomorrow’s discoveries are being made and the foundations of new companies are in the process of being created. DURHAM, NC — U.S. hospitals and policymakers could find many valuable lessons in recent accomplishments in the Indian hospital market, according to an interdisciplinary team from Duke University’s schools of business, law and medicine, whose work was published in the Sept. 10...