Keith Marmer is the chief innovation and economic engagement officer at University of Utah and he joins us to discuss the greenhouse initiative which means PIVOT Center is anything but a traditional tech transfer office.

He also muses why the popularity of hiking and fly-fishing in Utah is helpful and ponders what his recent promotion to a cabinet level position at the university will mean for commercialization activities.

Marmer places a lot of value on building relationships, and also reveals why that is his answer whenever peers from other institutions ask him about a program: “How did the university let you do this?”

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