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Osage Ventures to partner with research universities like Penn to bolster IP profit

The New York Times profiles the new Osage University Partners fund, which partners venture capitalists and universities to benefit both in high yield research-fed, intellectual property-driven startup businesses: Investing in start-ups is the business of venture capitalists, some of whom have come up with a new formula for profits. It goes roughly like this: Give […]

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Mar 17, 2011 10:30am

The New York Times profiles the new Osage University Partners fund, which partners venture capitalists and universities to benefit both in high yield research-fed, intellectual property-driven startup businesses:

Investing in start-ups is the business of venture capitalists, some of whom have come up with a new formula for profits. It goes roughly like this: Give a few V.C.’s access to the technology deals. Let them raise some capital and invest it shrewdly. The V.C.’s become rich. And if the deals are done correctly, the schools share handsomely in the riches. As an incidental but significant benefit, it’s at least possible that venture capitalists, working with universities, could help create manufacturing jobs in the United States.

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