{"id":4295,"date":"2012-11-29T01:30:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T09:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2012-11-29T01:30:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T09:30:44","slug":"geekwire-spotlights-michael-young-as-2012-newsnmaker-for-uw-commercialization-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/geekwire-spotlights-michael-young-as-2012-newsnmaker-for-uw-commercialization-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"GeekWire Spotlights Michael Young as &quot;2012 Newsmaker&quot; for Championing UW Commercialization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/President-Young-C4C-sign-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"President-Young-C4C-sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4298\" \/>UW President Michael Young has been identified by GeekWire as a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2012\/newsmakers-2012-uw-president-michael-young-shines-light-startups\/#utm_source=GeekWire+Daily+Digest&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=9c0c3e8c41-daily-digest-email\">2012 Newsmaker<\/a>\u201d on GeekWire this month, leading up to the GeekWire Gala on Dec. 6 at McCaw Hall in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Young earned this distinction for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2012\/uw-president-pledges-double-startup-production-incubator-hatches-campus\/\">his pledge<\/a> to double the number of start-ups coming out of the UW, and his support of the UW Center for Commercialization\u2019s initiatives to achieve this goal.  Initiatives include the new s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2012\/uw-president-pledges-double-startup-production-incubator-hatches-campus\/\">tart-up incubator<\/a> unveiled in Feb. 2012 at Fluke Hall, the formation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2012\/newlyformed-fund-pump-20m-university-spinouts\/\">$20 million W Fund<\/a>, a public-private partnership which is targeting research-based spin-outs.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the newsmakers from the GeekWire list will be attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/events\/geekwire-gala-december-6-2012\/\">Dec. 6 gala<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2012\/newsmakers-2012-uw-president-michael-young-shines-light-startups\/#utm_source=GeekWire+Daily+Digest&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=9c0c3e8c41-daily-digest-email\">complete story at GeekWire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW President Michael Young has been identified by GeekWire as a \u201c2012 Newsmaker\u201d on GeekWire this month, leading up to the GeekWire Gala on Dec. 6 at McCaw Hall in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelube.com\/work\/c4c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}