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Argonne Lab and U. of Chicago Form a Partnership to Develop and Market Their Scientists' Inventions.
McMillen, Liz – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1989
Four investors have committed $8.5 million to start companies based on discoveries made at the University of Chicago and the Argonne National Laboratory. It may be the first venture-capital fund to market products flowing from a federal laboratory. Graduate student volunteers are doing most of the development work. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cooperative Programs, Federal Programs, Fund Raising
