A wall in the new University of Washington CoMotion offices includes logos for some of the 285 companies that have spun out of the program. (GeekWire File Photo / Lisa Stiffler) CoMotion, the office ...

For decades, universities struggled to commercialize federally funded inventions. The 1980 Bayh-Dole Act fixed that, sparking modern tech transfer and ending the “ENIAC problem” that once drove ...