University-based incubators have created companies and good jobs. We need to keep the momentum going.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
An article in the June 27 New York Times Sunday
Business section ("The
Idea Incubator Goes to Campus") highlighted a proposal I wrote for
the Obama administration's 2011 federal budget designed to accelerate
the movement of innovative research from university campuses to the
marketplace. The National Science Foundation (NSF) budget proposal calls
for $12 million a year to establish several university proof-of-concept
programs--"Innovation Ecosystems"--in the hope that ultimately academic
institutions everywhere can better assist their faculty and students to
become successful entrepreneurs.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Why Funding University Innovation Matters - Forbes.com
Author: Krisztina ''Z'' Holly
