1.   Closely held Starfish already has technology partnerships with companies including Microware Systems Corp. General Magic Inc. and Franklin Electronic Publishers Inc.

2.   Gib Marguth, manager of technology partnerships and licensing at Sandia, said it takes an average of seven years to turn an invention into a commercial application.

3.   He said Agents Inc. plans to announce technology partnerships with other firms in the next several months.

4.   The new Java alliance is a technology partnership to be called the Open Service Gateway Specification.

5.   But political strains and a lack of marketing savvy by Chinese businesses has slowed the growth of technology partnerships.

6.   Chatchaval Chearavanon, director of TelecomAsia, said the cooperation between the two companies will be both a technology partnership and full joint venture partnership.

7.   Saying there is a limit to what the federal government can do, the president also encouraged more technology partnerships with schools, local communities and local governments.

8.   Various technology partnerships have since been forged.