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Woods Hole bio and tech labs join forces

By Brendan Lynch

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The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Woods Hole Research Center have joined to form the Woods Hole Consortium to address social issues.

The consortium will focus on climate change, ecosystem health and human well-being, while seeking to create jobs on the south coast of Massachusetts by spinning out companies, according to the MBL.

The consortium plans to work on attracting new sources of funding and collaborate on overlapping areas such as climate change, sustainable energy, earth’s processes and cycles, land-ocean-atmosphere interactions, oceans and human health, living marine resources and biodiversity, and human impacts on our planet’s environment.

Last month, WHOI and the Regional Technology Development Corp. of Cape Cod formed an official technology transfer and entrepreneurial services agreement intended to accelerate the commercialization of WHOI technology. The organizations said the goals for the agreement are to commercialize more WHOI projects, speed up the licensing of WHOI technologies, create companies based on WHOI technology and partner with commercial enterprises and other research institutions more often.
 

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