Technology Commercialization in Difficult Times

Seattle is famous for its techies, they’re super-smart and filled with great ideas, but might not have the entrepreneurial know-how to turn those ideas into a product or a company, especially in today’s economic climate. But Lee Hood and Carl Weissman have a solid track record of translating ideas into successful businesses. Hood, co-founder and president of the Institute for Systems Biology, invented the automated genome sequencer and has co-founded more than 14 biotech companies.
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