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Report: Tech-Transfer Shops Fixated on IP
'Homeruns' May Limit Commercialization

[April 16, 2007]

By Ben Butkus

A Kauffman Foundation report suggests universities and non-profit research institutions should adopt a model that emphasizes increasing the number of inventions, rather than focusing their efforts on a few technologies that are likely to provide a substantial financial return. But some insiders think the report, written by “a very misguided but powerful” institute, is overly idealistic.

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