By Chris Nicholson. Universities widely consider the revenue behind intellectual property to be a secondary concern. But even for the noble academic, there are dollars on the table. In terms of making money from inventions, New York University does pretty well. In 2013 it earned $214 million from intellectual property (IP) created through research, primarily in the schools of medicine and engineering and in the departments of computer science and physics. More...
LinkedIn Flexes Its Search Engine Muscle, Adds College-Finding Tools For Students
By Ingrid Lunden. Last year, LinkedIn widened the net for potential users when it started to allow high schoolers to join its social network for professionals, and today it’s launching a clutch of features that it hopes will get them to stick around a while longer: three new tools — Decision Boards, University Outcome Rankings and University Finder — focus on college-bound students who are deciding where to apply, what to study and people who might give them some useful advice on the way. More...