U. earns top 20 global ranking for commercializing tech

SALT LAKE CITYThe University of Utah has earned its way onto another list of top institutions for tech research, this time landing at No. 19 on the Nature Index 2017's assessment of leading global institutions for commercializing technology and innovation.
The Nature Index employed a novel method for assessing the commercialization successes that track back to academic research by evaluating citations noted in patent applications. The index also normalized the data to level the playing field amo