March 27, 2013

Keep our research economy strong

It often gets overlooked: Colorado’s research economy seemingly sits behind the scenes, with professors and researchers in laboratories at one of the state’s research universities or federal laboratories.

But, eventually, many discoveries made by those researchers and scientists find their way to the marketplace, as technologies are commercialized, either through licensing agreements or creation of spinoff companies.

All along the Front Range, bioscience, clean-tech, energy, software, Internet and other high-tech companies have located in Colorado in large part because of the presence of science-driven institutions.

But does the public at large truly appreciate how important our universities and laboratories are to the state’s…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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