“The NSF was smarter than I was,” Blank says. “They told me, ‘You have turned finding a business model into nothing more than the scientific method.’”



Government bureaucracies and start-ups are usually two things that don’t mix well together, but the National Science Foundation is looking to change that with a $10 million grant for an start-up education program intended to teach the nation’s top scientists and engineers how to become entrepreneurs. 


To article: 
Feds Giving Engineers and Scientists $50K to Learn to Start Companies





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