Universities, labs take innovations to market

With three major research universities along the Front Range and numerous federal laboratories calling Colorado home, it should be no surprise that a lot of innovation and new technologies come out of these organizations every year.

To handle the inventions, each organization has a technology-transfer office that takes a hard look at every new idea that crosses their paths and determines if it is something that deserves a patent or could be licensed to a commercial organization that already specializes in similar technology.

Technology transfer has…