Wednesday, December 17, 2003
The University of California has decentralized its technology transfer operation, and UC Davis is taking full advantage of the new flexibility. It is conduting an assessment of campus technologies and started inviting investors to tour the research labs.
This is a good article on the practical steps for expanding university-based technology transfer.
In 1903, the first powered flight was achieved by the Wright brothers in the Kitty Hawk, at Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina. That morning, the biting cold wind had a velocity of 22 to 27 miles an hour. As ten o'clock arrived, the Wrights decided, nevertheless, to get the machine out and attempt a flight.
Orville Wright launched from a track, taking off into the wind. The aircraft covered 120 feet, aloft for 12 seconds. For the first time, a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed, and had finally landed at a point as high as that from which it started.
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University of California Davis opens up
