Although the University of Rhode Island is in the smallest state in the country, its new president David Dooley has some big ambitions to improve education and to move the school’s intellectual property to the marketplace.

“The University of Rhode Island can play a more direct role in using research to assist both the creation of new companies and the success of existing companies,” he said. To that end, last May, the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education appointed Dooley as the replacement for outgoing president Robert Carothers, who had occupied the seat for 18 years. Dooley had previously been the provost and vice president of academic affairs at Montana State University in Bozeman.

Full Story: URI president Dooley aims to boost IP creation and translation Source: Mass High Tech, November 18th, 2009 Author: Marc Songini Added on November 24th, 2009 at 9:50 am, by Matt Mikula