Huge numbers of offices have been established over the past 30 years to help university researchers take their discoveries from the lab to the clinic. Meredith Wadman assesses their success.
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Wadman, M. The winding road from ideas to income. Nature 453, 830–831 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453830a
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