Award-winning tech transfer exec returns to NC after leading U.Va. Innovation transformation

Editor’s note: W. Mark Crowell, who helped lead tech transfer efforts at Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and N.S. State as well as the building of NCSU’s Centennial Campus, is returning to Chapel Hill after a four-year tenure as the award winning executive director at U. Va. Innovation. The University of Virginia’s H. Brevy Cannon interviewed Crowell about the development of the university as a tech transfer and entrepreneurial leader. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The University of Virginia recruited W. Mark Crowell in 2010 to lead a fundamental transformation of how U.Va. does innovation and research translation, guided by a longer-term, broader conception...

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