"In Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University is helping the city of steel become the city of advanced robotics."
-Bill Clinton, in his book Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy (Knopf, 2011).
The former president goes on to note that CMU, which has a Greenlighting Startups initiative, has more than 30 new companies up and running. He considers the university a splendid example of transferring technology, developed in part with federal research money, to the private sector.
