Tag Archives: startups

UW startups for FY2013 four years later, 1

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

In 2014, Research Enterprise ran a series of articles on the fake startup metrics at the University of Washington: Only 1 University of Washington Startup for FY 2014 4 Not 17 University of Washington Startups in FY13 Faked Metrics in … Continue reading →

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Getting at the truth about Bayh-Dole’s impact, Part 5

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

Now we get to the crunch of Catherine Kirby’s blog article–published at a Rice University web site for entrepreneurship–with the section “Did the Bill Work?” Since the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act, more than 5,000 new companies have formed from federally … Continue reading →

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We are delighted to help Stanford become a better university [laughter]

Posted on August 17, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

University of Washington president Michael Young gave a ten-minute talk in February 2012 at the opening of a business incubator on the UW campus. The talk is fascinating as a rationalization for the $100M effort to flip faculty and student startups … Continue reading →

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The Bully Pulpit

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

University of Washington president Michael Young gave a brief talk on technology transfer as he opened Fluke Hall as a startup incubator. In the talk, among other things Young challenged C4C, the UW licensing operation, to double the number of … Continue reading →

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Only 1 University of Washington Startup for FY 2014

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

We have been asking whether public universities are honestly reporting their economic development activities, and at least for the University of Washington, the answer is “no.” The University of Washington released a list of 18 startup companies it claimed to … Continue reading →

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