By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jim: There’re probably 600 or 700 federal laboratories, and as I said, their annual research budget is $150 billion. As part of that, there are a number of laws on the books that require the federal laboratories to transfer technology into the commercial, private sector. There are
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jim: So, as I was saying, “the valley of death” [for a technology startup company] is the place between, roughly, the $100,000 that you can raise on your own and maybe the $2.5 million or $3 million, which is the level at which a venture capital firm