Lugging bags and crates of freshly picked grapes, growers from all corners of the city convened in the parking lot of a local park on Saturday to drop off their crop.
The result is vastly inflated research and development costs, less innovation and diminished exploitation of superior techniques and products that could offer more crop for the drop.
This summer its first crop of about 50 "fellows" will be placed at small businesses such as Drop the Chalk, an education-software firm in New Orleans, and Andera Inc.