In recent years, the University of Minnesota has witnessed a slow decline in the number of new startup businesses based on its research.
Taking research from the laboratory shelf to a retail store can be a difficult process — so difficult that one University official described it as the “valley of death” for nascent technologies.
But the state is now trying to turn the downhill slide in the University’s technology commercialization into an upward climb.
On Friday, the state’s Science and Technology Initiative Advisory
Commission met for the first time in St. Paul to begin outlining a new
statewide science and technology economic development plan.
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Author: Miranda Taylor
