Battelle, OSU extend tech commercialization effort - Business First of Columbus:

Battelle, OSU extend tech commercialization effort - Business First of Columbus:

Two of Central Ohio’s largest economic engines are working together on a technology initiative that could pay dividends for both.

Columbus-based research and development giant Battelle said it has signed a two-year deal to use the Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Center at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business to assess the market potential of technology in its development pipeline. The OSU center has been working for Battelle on the project since mid-2009 in a pilot and the agreement takes the arrangement into 2011.

Spencer Pugh, Battelle’s vice president for international and industrial markets, said the partnership gives the research agency an important outside perspective it occasionally finds lacking when the focus is exclusively on technology.

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