Moving Ideas to Market

Colorado has fared better than some states through the recent economic slowdown, and its continued recovery will require sustained vigor in technology transfer, sparked by the states’ top research universities as well as federal labs.

Colorado is a hotbed for tech transfer — research and development of scientific innovation through the phases of invention and patent, leading ultimately to licensing of intellectual property into the business community.

The 2010 report New Economy States, released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, ranked Colorado sixth in the nation for its innovation capacity, and technology transfer was…