The leaders of tech transfer offices at Milwaukee-area research universities are expressing concern about federal research cuts.
They spoke yesterday during a Wisconsin Technology Council luncheon in Milwaukee, focused on programs in the region that help bring scientific innovations from the academic world to commercial application.
“It’s not a one-to-one correlation between inventions and dollars in, but we have to have robust, investigator-initiated, pushing back the frontiers of science sort of research, which is incredibly expensive,” the Medical College of Wisconsin’s director of office of technology development, Kevin Boggs, said. “And so, it’s the federal government that has the money to do that.”