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July 09, 2020 | Tom Ballard

UTRF documents one researcher’s seven-year journey from invention to a licensed technology

As anyone involved in technology commercialization knows, converting an invention into a commercial license with an industry partner usually doesn’t happen overnight. In fact, in can take years to move from an initial discovery to a product in the marketplace.

In this recent article in the latest issue of the newsletter from the University of Tennessee (UT) Research Foundation, the seven-year journey of one Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the UT Institute of Agriculture is described in great detail.


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