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This ties into #1 and important to also mention:

Undergraduate students also own all of their own IP. If you want to commercialize something you've worked on in school, you don't even need to deal with a tech transfer office: you just do it.



Huge incentive. More time to focus on the idea, less time spend on how to protect it.


and less worries from investors if you are commercializing something based off of work done in university. No worry that in a couple years when things are taking off the university is going to come back looking for their cut.


Couldn't agree more. Plus, UW has an awesome startup culture!




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