Global technology transfer infrastructure is maturing

That new approach to Web search became the foundation for Google. Google's technology lets people work more quickly and efficiently from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. Google might be the ultimate example of government-funded research that hits the jackpot. However, even smaller advancements in government-funded research can yield significant dividends for the researchers' institutions. These dividends can also extend to the companies that partner with the researchers or that might be spun off from such research, to those companies' employees, and to those who take advantage of end products based on that research