March 03, 2009
cleantech, energy, environment Luke Timmerman wrote: The venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers said three years ago that “greentech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century.” Since then, voters in the U.S. have elected a President and ...
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February 23, 2009
Biotech, Patents, vaccines Luke Timmerman wrote: One of the world’s best-selling vaccines, Merck’s Gardasil, is quietly producing some serious money for an unexpected benefactor—the University of Washington. Thanks to some hard-fought patent litigation from the 1990s that ended up ...
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February 21, 2009
I was happy to have a chance to speak on a panel Friday at the CASE 2009 Conference in Seattle (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education). 123’s own CIO Mark Walker was also on the panel, along with Eric Warn, the Director of Alumni Relations from Antioch University (*Disclosure, Antio...
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February 10, 2009
Image via Wikipedia More University of Washington layoffs are coming as the state cuts back on its budget, this time it is looking like mostly administration and teaching jobs that will be impacted by this one. In an interview, Emmert said that under the first scenario, about 400 administrative and ...
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January 29, 2009
Software, people, Legal Luke Timmerman wrote: Linden Rhoads, the high-tech entrepreneur hired last summer to help the University of Washington spin out more innovations into the business world, is bringing in new blood from the corporate world into key staff roles at her office. The UW has recruited...
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January 28, 2009
intellectual property, Software, Lists Gregory T. Huang wrote: [Updated Jan. 28, with information on Intellectual Ventures' patents (see below)] If its volume of new patents is any indication, Microsoft is going to be just fine. The Redmond, WA, software firm blew away the rest of Washington state i...
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Gregory T. Huang
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January 27, 2009
Biotech, Diagnostics, Diseases Rachel Tompa wrote: Micronics has been around since 1996, so it hardly qualifies as a startup anymore. But the Redmond, WA-based biotech company has been moving in new directions over the last few years, and is now getting ready to bring its first diagnostic tests to t...
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Rachel Tompa
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January 09, 2009
Biotech, Global Health, Life Sciences Luke Timmerman wrote: The global health bug bit Lisa Cohen in 2001. She was a producer at KING5-TV in Seattle at the time, and along with anchorwoman Jean Enerson, she traveled through Africa for two weeks in a delegation with Patty Stonesifer, who was then runn...
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December 24, 2008
Biotech, Drugs, Life Sciences Luke Timmerman wrote: Some of the stories Lynn Rose told me the other week made me laugh out loud, and want to cry in mercy. One story was about the academic researcher who ran a single experiment in an animal species that panned out. This scientist, who shall remain na...
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December 05, 2008
Sarah Jeglum, editor of the University of Washington's student newspaper The Daily must be auditioning for a position at the World Net Daily or something. First, she made the decision to publish an op-ed that supported Proposition 8 by comparing gay marriage to bestiality along with an illustra...
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