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Student and Faculty Entrepreneurs Face Unique Challenges, Conflicts in Taking Innovations from University Lab to Market (Kauffman Foundation) 

New technology innovations – and the startup companies formed to commercialize them – increasingly have their beginnings in university research labs. And it's more likely that PhD students, not faculty, form the initial idea for a new technology.. "From Lab Bench to Innovation: Critical Challenges to Nascent Academic Entrepreneurs," a new study released today by the Kauffman Foundation, examines the particular experience of nascent academic entrepreneurs (NAEs) and the implications of this experience for universities and policymakers.