Schools and business in cooperation by Martina Harvanova

Cornell's University in N.Y., Stanford, Pennsylvania State, Harvard, Howard and North Carolina State Universities and the Universities of Michigan, Washington, California, Minnesota, New Mexico and Texas. All of these high-level educational institutions have something in common. Except excellent evaluation of their workrooms, laboratories and other technical equipment at their science-related faculties, they have also another pros. They know how to make a use of it.Education is not only about gaining knowledges anymore. These highly placed schools have further visions. They want their name to sound privileged and distinguished. Achieving this goal, they try to take as many successful steps in science and research as possible. To score, all of them started participating in a project that is founded on hiring themselves out to businesses. And it is getting pretty popular both among the schools joined in the network and the companies taking advantage of it. It is simple. Universities dispose of the complicated and expensive nano-level labs and the companies, small ones but surprisingly bigger ones as well, want to use them as soon as their research can be done much more efficient and accessible at the same time. Building new labs is just not worth it and "it is the fixed costs that kill you," as Matt Miller of Multispectral Imaging Inc. says. In this particular case, the nano-labs owned by the universities are being used for developing thermal imaging technology to help rescuing people from burning buildings. Other example for the use of them is here: rearranging methane gas to create industrial diamonds. In spite of the tenuity of a nanometer, it is 10,000 smaller than the diameter of a human hair, the possibilities of it are huge. And economic benefits as well.Universities definitely own their unique know-how. It is established on great technical equipment and its use not only for schools themselves, but also as a contribution to science and research. And the economic convenience is a nice share of everything.

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