University researchers often have no idea how to get the science they've developed to the marketplace where it can benefit real people.
Most prefer to stay in the lab and let university officials bring in off-campus entrepreneurs to create companies to market that research.
A decade before he came to the University of Utah as dean of the David Eccles School of Business, Jack Brittain started to think about another way of creating business ventures based on university-developed technology.
"We wanted to ... support the research mission, the educational mission and the service mission of the university," he said.
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