ACES 2009: Money makes the research go around

Lori Valigra

Riccardo Pietrabissa: set up Italy’s tech transfer network.

Riccardo Pietrabissa got into tech transfer the old-fashioned way: he made a deal. The bioengineering professor and vice rector at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, started that university’s patent office when the payment for funding his experimental biomechanical laboratory came due.

“My transition to the tech transfer office started in 1998 when I was an assistant professor. I asked...

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