Compared with high-tech companies, universities are more often on the giving end than the receiving end of the legal threats, says Arti Rai, a patent law expert at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Plans for Brownsville include luring into town some of the 250 suppliers working with SpaceX in Texas, working with the local university to create a pipeline of talent to high-tech jobs, commercializing university innovations and more, Salinas tells me.
In recent years their targets have spread from high-tech firms to universities, retailers, hospitals, charities and even consumers.
In the last Congress, he introduced a bill to double government financing of basic high-tech research at universities.
Silicon Valley, home of Stanford and other universities, has long been the model of success for a modern regional economy, and policy makers worldwide have tried to emulate it by nurturing high-tech companies around universities.
He also counted as major successes a new law that gives control of the New York City schools to the mayor and a program that finances high-tech research at universities across the state.
The company got its start selling office furniture to New England's high-tech industry and universities, and eventually responded to a demand from clients for memory systems compatible with the computer systems they used that were made by the era's mainframe giants, Digital Equipment Corp., Wang and IBM.
That environment is not where we are today, but the effort is underway with more than 50 leading high-tech companies and universities working together to define and embrace a royalty-free standard to address this issue called Heterogeneous System Architecture. .
Indiana had no such qualms and now has major foreign investment from firms such as Honda, Toyota and Subaru.The other big thing in Indiana's favour, especially for high-tech industries, is its university system.
