The University of Michigan has spent years developing an environment that supports both faculty and students who want to commercialize the fruits of their labor by starting their own companies.
As it draws up plans to become a for-profit corporation, Singularity University has significantly tightened the terms under which its students may use the intellectual property they develop in their courses.
The University of California, Davis, College of Engineering's fledgling high-tech business incubator, the Engineering Translational Technology Center, has its first "graduate."
The solution to this serious problem can be found across the river, where the policy adopted by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities guarantees that students maintain ownership of the intellectual property they create.
As an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Bret Fund sought a variety of means to improve classroom discourse through the addition of technology.
