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Peter Rousos, director of new venture development with Vanderbilt CTTC, recently served on a panel at the 2013 University Startup Conference. Rousos discussed the rise in student interest in starting companies as well as the various ways CTTC is working to support Vanderbilt innovators and entrepreneurs.

As an industry reliant on innovation and technology, it seems obvious that technology transfer would work to simplify many of its own practices and procedures through technology, namely automated systems. Yet often, we catch ourselves relying on age-old processes that take multiple individuals and significant time.

“See a need, fill a need.” It’s the motto professed by Mel Brooks’ character Bigweld of the fictitious robotics powerhouse Bigweld Inudstry in the iconic animated film Robots.