The founder noted that most of the money will be used to look for national opportunities as well as creating uniform materials on starting companies that can be shared with other programs.

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And there is the personal aspect of building and maintaining networks among academics and scientists that is so important and usually based on shared experience in academic programs.

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Pioneers needed to tweak their programs and shared improvements freely.

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