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Five Universities You Can Do Business With

From: Inc. Magazine, February 2006 |  Page: 23 By: Carl Schramm

To look in on university research is to see the subatomic structure of modern entrepreneurial capitalism. Through a process called technology transfer, academic researchers patent their work, then license it, often under a royalty agreement, to companies that ultimately bring the innovation to market. Many of the great breakthroughs of the past 30 years--in fields such as computing, telecom, the Internet, and fiber optics--were first conceived in a university lab.

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Big Hopes For Small Packages

By Larry Greenemeier
InformationWeek

It may be too small to see, but nanotechnology's visibility got yet another boost last week when President Bush included it, as well as supercomputing and alternative energy resources, as areas of research to which he wants the government to increase its commitment over the next decade.

So far, nanotech has produced a lot more studies and centers than commercial success. But that may be changing. In addition to the president's endorsement, Arizona State University last week opened the Center for Nanotechnology in Society to study the societal impacts of nanotechnology.

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Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU

Google office coming to ASU

School, Web giant sign 3-year lease
The Arizona Republic

Google's first office on a U.S. college campus will be at Arizona State University. The announcement came, fittingly, in an electronic message Friday.

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Eye Scan Technology Comes to Schools

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Phil Meara is superintendent of the New Jersey school district that is piloting the iris scan project. 

Parents who want to pick up their kids at school in one New Jersey district now can submit to iris scans, as the technology that helps keep our nation's airports and hotels safe begins to make its way further into American lives.

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Bush grants Valley's wishes

$136 BILLION INITIATIVE TO BOOST MATH, SCIENCE
By Jim Puzzanghera
Mercury News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - After a series of reports warning of the growing economic threat from China and India, ``competitiveness'' has become the latest catch-word of Silicon Valley's high-tech industry.

President Bush elevated the issue for the nation Tuesday, announcing a decadelong ``American Competitiveness Initiative'' that would pour $136 billion into scientific research and the promotion of math and science education.

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Tech leaders press Bush on U.S. competitiveness

By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

When President George W. Bush delivers his annual State of the Union speech on Tuesday, a long list of Silicon Valley leaders will be sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see if they succeeded in swaying the White House through a low-key but intense lobbying campaign.

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E-Passports Get New Port Of Call

By Laurie Sullivan

InformationWeek

The Department of Homeland Security will begin testing passports embedded with radio-frequency identification chips at the San Francisco International Airport in the next few weeks.

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Electronic health records needed faster

Head of Center for Health Transformation says 'we need to have a sense of urgency'

By Grant Gross, IDG News Service
May 25, 2005

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - U.S. hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and the government are endangering lives by moving too slowly in adopting electronic health records, Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said Wednesday.

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Silicon Valley's Call: Smarten Up, America!

An all-star cast of tech execs is demanding a raft of changes in government and social policies to spur innovation in the U.S.

The only thing tech industry leaders love to talk about more than innovation is why it's in jeopardy. True to form, an all-star cast of Silicon Valley execs is renewing its perennial call for a raft of changes in government and social policies.

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