In this paper, we first propose a relational network data envelopment analysis (DEA) model for measuring the innovation efficiency of the NIS by decomposing the innovation process into a network with a two-stage innovation production framework, an upstream knowledge production process (KPP) and a downstream knowledge commercialization process (KCP).
We believe that a much more efficient commercialization process recognizes that 1) there needs to be a separate, parallel path to validate the commercial hypotheses and 2) the answers to the key commercialization questions are outside the lab and cannot be done by proxies.
We inductively develop a model of the commercialization process for new products or services user entrepreneurs undertake when entering an industry while drawing on proprietary technology developed in another industry.
One researcher commented that he recognized that he 'needs to overcome some inertia', which reflects hesitation to invest resources and time into the commercialization process – a process he sees as risky and unfamiliar.
The low survival rate (20%to5353%) of in vitro plantlets of G. scabra in greenhouse poses a serious challenge to growers' commercialization process (Personal communications with several growers in Taiwan).
Additionally, the exceptional thermal stability as well as the low-cost/convenient preparation process makes crystal 1 with the large size of more than 1 cm to be an ideal technologically important green-emitting material and it would open up a new route towards the commercialization process of lead-free/rare earth-free hybrid emitting materials in display and sensing.
We agree with your assertions that additional reasons for low commercialization activity likely exist and that expanding our research questions and sample size to include a mix of stakeholders involved in the research commercialization process (including faculty that have been unsuccessful at commercializing their research and staff/administrators of the commercialization process, etc).
In addition, as you gain more knowledge about the commercialization process, and have a better understanding of the business world, you can improve your grant proposals.
"The critical role that scientists play in our economy is compromised because faculty members, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers do not have a base-level understanding of the commercialization process," Mitchell explains.
It is likely that the barriers vary between and among disciplines and the barriers may further vary based on an individual's general experience with the commercialization process.
