Tech Transfer Leader Barrow Leaving UMass, Launching Consulting Firm

Abigail Barrow, a long-time technology transfer leader at the University of Massachusetts system, is leaving UMass and starting a consulting firm called Cambridge Innovation Partners, she said in an e-mail to Xconomy. Barrow’s departure was first reported by the Boston Business Journal. Barrow told Xconomy her new firm will focus on “supporting the development of regional innovational ecosystems and the commercialization of research.” She said she will also work with MassGlobal Partners to advise growing companies located around the world.

In 2004, Barrow, who is an Xconomist, became the founding director of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, housed within UMass’s Office of Technology Commercialization and Ventures. She has served as interim executive director of that office since early 2015, according to her LinkedIn profile. Prior to UMass, she was managing director of a center for research commercialization at the University of California San Diego..

Author: Jeff Bauter Engel

Jeff, a former Xconomy editor, joined Xconomy from The Milwaukee Business Journal, where he covered manufacturing and technology and wrote about companies including Johnson Controls, Harley-Davidson and MillerCoors. He previously worked as the business and healthcare reporter for the Marshfield News-Herald in central Wisconsin. He graduated from Marquette University with a bachelor degree in journalism and Spanish. At Marquette he was an award-winning reporter and editor with The Marquette Tribune, the student newspaper. During college he also was a reporter intern for the Muskegon Chronicle and Grand Rapids Press in west Michigan.