This new venture in worldwide technology transfer is called Techstart International Inc. The New York company was founded by two entrepreneurs, Peter Ruof, formerly of the World Bank, and Paris del L'Etraz, a computer systems analyst with the Union Bank of Switzerland.
The company plans to develop a network of national boards to identify possible recipients of information supplied by American scientists and engineers in companies, universities and research establishments. The scientists provide Techstart with an IBM PC floppy disk containing a 100-word description of their concepts, plus their names and addresses. Once every three months, Techstart will collate, format and distribute copies of the disk to boards around the world for circulation to their target markets.
National boards already exist in London, Dusseldorf, Zurich, Madrid and Toronto. In London, company executive Christian Keller said he had identified 500 suitable recipients of the first American edition of the database, which ...
