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Culture Clash: Scientists vs. Entrepreneurs
Much of the work that I have done involves transferring technologies out of academia or federal laboratories. The framework for academic spinoffs is that typically there are technical co-founder(s) who...
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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...
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Testimony 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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Another Great Video about Graphene
It’s hard not to be excited about the future after you watch this.
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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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Report on the White House Lab-to-Market Summit
Photo credit: Wikipedia On May 20, 2013 a group of national experts in technology transfer convened in Washington, DC to discuss how to improve the nation’s effectiveness at bringing federally-funded...
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