A piece in Forbes this week calls attention to a recent trend in technology commercialization at universities: the use of crowdfunding.
The article focused on a collaboration between the University of Utah’s Technology Commercialization Office and the crowdfunding site RocketHub, which resulted in the University Tech Vault, a portal specifically for projects that come out of the university.
Come to find, there are several other sites aimed at supporting donation-based crowdfunding for research projects, some of them created in partnerships with, or entirely around, universities. Most of the ones I found are still in beta mode, which demonstrates the newness of this alternative method of funding research. Feel free to leave any I missed in the comments.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Crowdfunding university research and tech commercialization: 6 sites that are doing it | MedCity News
