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During a freewheeling brainstorming session about how to get more of the research out of hospitals and universities, and into the hands of companies to make them into products, the senior vice provost for research from Drexel University, Deborah Crawford, put out a passionate idea: that a research university has a duty to its country to support aggressive technology transfer.

Here’s her full statement, which came near the end of the “Whiteboarding Tech Transfer” panel at MedCity CONVERGE:

To read the full, original article click on this link: Healthcare innovation & tech transfer: patriotic duties for universities?