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Licensing Technologies from Universities
A common way for startups to get going is by taking technology invented at a university (or federal laboratory or similar public institution) and “transferring” it to the commercial sector by creating...
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Principle Three: Leverage Private Money
Continuing with the Nine Guiding Principles, onto Principle Three. Image via Wikipedia Everyone knows that raising private capital to finance a startup is difficult. This post is not going to tell that...
View ArticleTestimony from House Review of Innovation Corps Program
Earlier today I got the opportunity to provide witness testimony for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Science Education in a...
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Impedance Mismatch
(Photo credit: nerovivo) I’ve written and talked about the cultural differences between entrepreneurs and career researchers. Lately I’ve discovered a new one: Scientists: Are afraid of making bad...
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Nanotech Takes It On The Chin
English: Nanoparticle and nanotechnology – CILAS (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Here is a link to an Op-Ed piece that Crain’s Chicago Business ran today about the unfortunate state of funding for emerging...
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10 Considerations When Licensing a Technology
End User License Agreement (Photo credit: Brett L.) In today’s guest post on Tech Cocktail I talk about the essential elements surrounding licensing technologies…either to augment your product...
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Solar Energy Is Heating Up Tech — Even When The Sun Goes Down
In this guest post on Forbes.com, I talk about a recently announced scientific breakthrough from Harvard and MIT–and the impediments toward bringing it to market in successful products. The posting can...
View ArticleFoldable, Bendable And Bright: The Future Of Displays
Apple recently acquired a startup that makes micro-LEDs for displays, but another company looks like it might have the winning formula thanks to an innovative manufacturing process invented by Prof....
View ArticleInnovating A New Innovation Model
The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research at Argonne National Laboratory is innovating in ways outside of battery research. Their model of a public-private partnership is breaking new ground. See...
View ArticleA Bright Idea: Teaching Educators To Be Entrepreneurs
The National Science Foundation’s new I-Corps L (for learning) program asks whether innovative educators can be taught the basics of entrepreneurship. I write about the experience in my posting for...
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