The Great Lake IT Report's Fall Tech Tour traversed the state, then
finished up at Wayne State University, where editor Matt Rousch was
dazzled by the amount of innovation he saw coming out of the university.
Excerpt:
In
Wayne State's 2006 fiscal year, the school took in $4 million in
licensing revenue from 30 companies, an amount up 23 percent from the
prior year. The number of patent applications rose 63 percent and
patents granted doubled. The number of invention disclosures and
license and option agreements dropped slightly but the university
created two start-up companies developing therapeutic-diagnostic
products. There are several start-ups in the pipeline and seeking
investment from the venture or angel investor community.
Read the entire report
here.
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