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A Quiet Crisis: Endowed Chairs

Originally aired April 4, 2002
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What are endowed chairs and how many did Northeast Ohio actually have? How do they work? And how can they stimulate the regional economy? The panelists discussed how new and innovative ideas—which are often the by-product of endowed chairs at local colleges and universities—are transferred or commercialized from a campus setting to promising business enterprises in the local community.

Participants:

Christopher Coburn, Executive Director, CCF Inovations
Dr. Carol Cartwright, President, Kent State University
Christopher Woolverton, Assoc Prof Biological Sciences, Kent State University
Mauro Ferrari, Director, Ohio State University Biomedical Engineering Center
Mark Coticchia, VP Research & Technology Mngt, CWRU

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Read the transcript and press release of this program.

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