concept. In terms of return to investors over the last 10 years in healthcare, GelTex and Theravance were viewed as very successful startups (e.g., GelTex was acquired by Genzyme for S1.6B in 2000). 16 Carmichael Roberts, president and cofounder of Surface Logix, had been a postdoc in the Whitesides la

a, and Clams Diagnostics. Carmichael Roberts16 explained, There are physical things as well as ideas that spin out of George's lab. In the case of GelTex, it was an idea that was based on some broad, fundamental scientific work that George was doing, but there was never any direct work done on a polym