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Students from Portland State's School of Business Administration and Lewis & Clark College's Law School are helping Oregon Health & Science University develop start-up technologies by creating business plans and offering legal advice. The eight MBA and six law students are part of the new Interdisciplinary Center for Law and Entrepreneurship (ICLE) created last fall as a way to teach future lawyers and business people how to assist developing businesses by leveraging the strengths of their respective fields.

The program also helps to advance economic development in the region by supporting small and emerging businesses with legal and business advice. This term, students in the ICLE program, along with law and business mentors, are assisting OHSU on three new technologies that have been developed: stem cell therapy, stroke rehabilitation therapy, and a sperm management technique for agriculture. The three projects will be complete by June.