Higher education institutions need to double down on their market-led research and innovation efforts and their engagement with the commercial world or they risk irrelevance. “Colleges that don’t embed market-focused innovation into their DNA are doing a massive disservice to their students who will need to invent their own jobs,” says Benjamin Soffer, chairman of the Israeli Tech Transfer Network and former head of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology’s technology transfer office.
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