Teams of entrepreneurs lined up inside the Arizona Center for Innovation awaiting the chance to deliver a pitch that, with hopes, might grab the attention of a potential investor sitting in the audience.

The event was the fourth annual Pitch Day at the center in the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park, 9070 S. Rita Road. The event featured 22 teams of hopefuls from across the state each of which was given five minutes to sell their fledgling product.

"This is the best it's ever been in my experience," said Curtis Gunn, chairman of the Southern Arizona investor group the Desert Angels.

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By:  Maxwell J. Mangold
Published:  April 17, 2013 @ 3.57am
Arizona Daily Wildcat

The release of a strategic plan this month marked the start of a new era for a UA unit aimed at sharing faculty technological innovations.

Tech Launch Arizona's strategic plan, "Roadmap," is a guide for the unit's current and future plans to help share UA faculty's technological innovations with those outside the university. Its goal is to advance university "discoveries into intellectual property, inventions and technology," according to the Office of Technology Transfer website.

"What we created is a framework for the changes that are occurring and will occur," said David Allen, executive director and vice president of Tech Launch. "It provides an overview for people to understand that the operation is going to be different and how it's going to be different ... It shows that this new team that has been created has the knowledge, experience and the resources to carry on the plan."

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Arizona Public Media
By:  Christopher Conover
last updated: March 11, 2013

A recent tour of the Arizona-Mexican border led Gov. Jan Brewer, titular leader of a border-security political movement, to call for more "boots on the ground."

That is not all the Republican governor wants when it comes to border security.

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