To be competitive globally, many U.S. companies, from startups to Fortune 500 firms, rely on new technologies invented by our nation's universities to fuel their next-generation products. In 2010 alone, technologies from U.S. universities and research institutes have been turned into 657 new products and 651 new startup companies.
A specific example illustrates the power of university research in the development of innovative products. In the 1980s, Dr. Thomas Maren, a professor at the University of Florida, discovered a new drug that solved a significant problem: protecting patients from vision loss caused by glaucoma.
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