Entrepreneurial CSURF connects to market

The university isn’t just for academics anymore. The Colorado State University Research Foundation is helping to make researchers into entrepreneurs, effectively taking technology from the lab to the marketplace.

CSURF has been around a long time; it was founded in 1941 as the nonprofit Colorado A&M Research Foundation. The agency not only handles technology licensing, but also real estate and large equipment purchases for CSU. But only in the past few years has CSURF really revved up its technology transfer functions.

“Prior to 2006, technology transfer was a really solid operation that connected CSU with the private sector, mostly…