Innovations pay off for people

The News & Observer

April 28, 2008

Point of View: Mark Crowell

Technology transfer successes emanating from North Carolina institutions abound. Food is safer, manufacturing processes are cleaner, diseases are prevented or treated, a device is available to combat stuttering, conversational Spanish is taught to health-care professionals in rural settings, and on and on -- all as a result of North Carolina university innovations connected with the market via the technology transfer process. Hundreds of new companies have been created, along with untold numbers of jobs, investments and other economic benefits.  Click here to read more.