The economy might be hiccupping toward an uncertain fate, but one of the engines of innovation is still hitting on all cylinders. Technological advances emerging from the nation's universities are finding their way into industry at a pace that has hardly slackened in the last year. Institutions of higher learning do not cite patenting as a primary goal; top priority still goes to research and teaching. But license fees from existing patents, particularly in biotechnology, are generating hundreds of millions of dollars that universities often plow back into research.

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